IT IS one for the boys as Whitefield Garrick's new season of plays kicks off later this month.

With household names such as Harold Pinter, Alan Ayckbourn and Alan Bennett dominating the writer's line-up, the theatre in Bank Street has a lot to offer.

All the plays this season are written by men but there is something for all tastes, from the light-hearted Body Language to the dark and dismal The Beauty Queen of Leenane.

Alan Ayckbourn kicks off the programme with Body Language, directed by Ian Rayner.

The play runs from September 25 to October 2 and is about two women and their bodies.

Journalist Jo hates the sight of her body, while photographic model Angie can't stop people from admiring hers.

What would happen if Angie and Jo could change places with each other?

A thought-provoking play follows with Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, from November 20 to 27.

Directed by John Cunningham, the play introduces two brothers Aston and Mike to a tramp named Davies.

Aston is the caretaker who collects things but never makes use of them. His younger brother Mike, his landlord, is manipulative.

One day Aston brings home Davies, a tramp who makes a career of sponging off gullible people. The play shows that in life there are givers, takers and manipulators and the audience is left asking "Which one am I?"

The Beauty Queen of Leenane, by Martin McDonagh is set in Ireland and centres on the life of Maureen Folan and her 70-year-old mother, Mag.

While her two sisters have escaped into marriage and family life, Maureen is trapped in the small, bleak cottage with her over-dependent mother.

Directed by Dave Eyre, the play runs from January 22 to 29 next year.

Many people will remember Danny De Vito's performance as Lawrence Garfinkle in the film Other People's Money.

This comedy, by Jerry Sterner, comes to the Garrick stage from March 12 to 19, 2005 and features the Wall Street stockmarket, greed and old fashioned business sense.

Written by a former stockbroker, Other People's Money is directed by Alan McPherson.

The 2004/2005 season comes to an end next May with the 1960s farce Habeus Corpus, by Alan Bennett.

Middle class customs and hypocrisies about sex feature in this story of a Brighton GP and his family, directed by Brian Seymour.

Habeus Corpus runs from May 7 to 14.