I'M SURPRISED the cast knew what to wear for dinner at The Grand on Tuesday -- such were the twists and turns of their wonderful farce, Don't Dress For Dinner.

It was a rather complicated tale of marital affairs, mistaken identity, love notes, Chanel coats and cordon bleu.

An overlong ending allowed author Marc Camoletti to tie up some loose ends, but overall it was a good enough mixture of visual comedy, deceit, anarchy, one-liners and intelligent wit to give the audience their money's worth and plenty of laughs.

The action is set in a converted barn a couple of hours' drive from Paris so I'd half expected 'Allo 'Allo veteran Vicki Michelle to run on stage in a short skirt talking pidgin French. Instead she played scorned and adulterous wife Jacqueline with a plummy English accent and great aplomb.

Robert Duncan (Jacquelin's adulterous husband Bernard) and Giles Watling (her lover, Robert) were both great visual comics, bordering almost on the slapstick, and with a good line in quavering voices and Melanie Stace convinced as Bernard's capricious young mistress Suzanne.

But the real star of the show was Glenda McKay, the Yorkshire-born actress best known as Rachel in Emmerdale.

Like a cross between Ab Fab's Bubbles and Peggy from Hi-de-Hi, she burst onto the stage in blonde curly bunches and stripey socks, and delivered an hilarious performance as confused cook Suzette -- the icing on the farcical cake!

Don't Dress for Dinner runs at Blackpool's Grand Theatre nightly at 8pm until this Saturday (November 9). Phone the box office on 290190 for more details.