Country guile takes on city wiles in Chancers, a family-friendly period romp full of music, mirth, scheming scoundrels and skulduggery showing at Edge Hill University's Rose Theatre on Thursday 11^th February 2010.

When rising literary star Carrie Lyndon is commissioned to write a play for the Duke of Gloucester, her journey from London, the self-proclaimed "centre of the artistic world", to the countryside is as dramatic as the 18^th Century itself. Is it even the real Carrie that arrives in Gloucester to bring art - or something worse - to the unsuspecting country folk?

In a messily exploding age of cake, coffee and commerce, the gap between town and country is narrowing with the powers of government beginning to reach far into the countryside. Carrie arrives in Gloucester just as it begins to bite back: riots, sit-ins and boycotts abound, and starvation and persecution soon follow.

The country is in uproar, the Militia are called in and the role of the theatre, and the women within it, are called into question. With a countrywide confrontation brewing, does anyone really care if the show goes on, and if so why?

Using biting satire, mind-bending plot twists and plenty of laughs, the Fabulous Old Spot Theatre Company celebrates the eccentricities of the 18^th Century and highlights the importance of theatre to everyone - even those who live outside London. Watch with a sense of smug enjoyment as the ship of artistic pretension hit the rocks of countryside commonsense!

The Fabulous Old Spot Theatre Company was established in 2003 to bring exciting, accessible, professional theatre to the community venues of rural Britain.

Chancers is suitable for the fearless, fierce and fainthearted, aged 7 and over.

Performance starts at 7.30pm.

Tickets: £8.50 / £6.50 (concessions).

For further information contact the Box Office:

• The Rose Theatre, Edge Hill University, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, L39 4QP
• Tel: 01695 584480