Idle and Thackley Theatre Group is following up its successful production of The Odd Couple, which revised Neil Simon’s classic comedy with female characters in place of the traditional male roles, with another much-loved comedy.

The group will be staging Blackadder Goes Forth, adapted from the classic BBC sitcom and based on the original script by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton.

Alyson Hunter and Bob Cochrane have adapted the comedy, which brings the Blackadder saga to the First World War.

It is 1917 in a trench near Passchendaele, and Captain Edmund Blackadder, Lt. the Hon George Collthurst, Sergeant Berleigh and Private S Baldrick await General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett’s invitation to join the big push to “advance Field Marshall Haig’s cocktail cabinet six inches closer to Berlin”.

The men view the prospect very differently.

For George this is an opportunity to put the skills learned on the playing fields of Eton into practice “to give Harry Hun a darn good British style thrashing”.

For Baldrick it is a terrifying experience which he is not looking forward to and for Captain Blackadder it is something to be avoided at all costs.

As Blackadder points out: “A war hasn’t been fought this badly since Olaf the Hairy, High Chief of all the Vikings, accidentally ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside.”

Blackadder Goes Forth runs at Idle and Thackley Little Theatre from June 24 - 28 at 7.30pm.

Tickets are priced £10, and £8 for concessions which includes a donation to Comic Relief.

Bookings can be made on (01274) 411080 or online at ittg.org.uk.