An English country garden in a hot summer in the Cotswolds is the setting for Humble Boy, staged by Bingley Little Theatre at Bingley Arts Centre.

The play, by Charlotte Jones, is about a mother and son in middle-class England. It has the themes of dysfunctional families, bee keeping and theoretical physics thrown in for laughs - and there are plenty of those.

The Humble Boy' is Felix Humble who has returned home for his father's funeral. Bruce Sturrock was magnificent as the bumbling, unmarried and largely unsuccessful university lecturer struggling to come to terms with his father's death. The audience feels for him as he gets one shock after another.

Jan Thomas, as Felix's selfish, vain mother Flora, was Queen Bee of the stage, and Glenn Boldy gave a bull-at-a-gate portrayal of Flora's arrogant boyfriend George.

BLT newcomer Susan Ward's comic timing was spot on as George's daughter, Rosie, and Freda Denbigh, as family friend Mercy, had the audience in stitches.