The programme says Anyone For Breakfast? is set in the present. But would a young man turn up for dinner in the country in a dinner jacket in this day and age?

This is farce, however, where anything is allowed. What the play lacks is pace.

It drags along, making the storyline of illicit relationships seem even more dated.

Jacqueline Roberts gives a very funny performance as Jane, who has persuaded her friend Shirley (Nicola Marsland) to let her use her house to meet up with Mark, who she met at the squash club, while her husband is in Dusseldorf (she thinks).

Martino Lazzeri from Hollyoaks has the looks which would have attracted all the women at the club but the chemistry between the two is lacking and he seems as ill at ease in the part as he is to be invited to dinner.

Their tete-a-tete is rudely interrupted by Shirley's husband Gilbert, who arrives with a German air hostess in tow after their flight to Dusseldorf has been fogbound.

Roger Ringrose gives a good performance in the role of Gilbert but Brookside's Anne Marie Davies doesn't really convince as the sexy air hostess who lures Gilbert from his attractive wife.

Arthur Bostrom has stepped into the role of Jane's husband Roger after Neighbours star Shane Conner dropped out and he is always good value for money.

But the small house on Monday showed this production was not a popular choice for Eastbourne - perhaps because many residents don't watch the soaps the actors star in.

You have to take the good with the bad and, luckily for Eastbourne, there are very few bad productions - and you can't win them all.