ON the back of a successful post-Christmas pantomime, amateur production group, Stane Street Players, have announced their next show.

The popular group will present Our Man In Havana, adapted by Clive Francis, at Halstead’s Empire Theatre and Earls Colne Village Hall.

Fans will fondly remember Stane Street’s Players recent production’s of Robinson Crusoe and the Pirates, played to over 1200 local residents over six shows in January, as well as Gaslight and Dirty Dusting within the last year.

Dirty Dusting showed the groups humourous side, while Victorian thriller, Gaslight, has seen them nominated for a NODA (National Operatic and Dramatic Association) District 11 in the Best Drama category.

Our Man In Havana will prove another challenge for this clearly talented cast.

Clive Francis’s stage adaptation of Graham Greene’s 1958 novel tells the tale of Wormold, a hapless Hoover salesman unwittingly recruited by the British service, who invent a networks fictitious contacts and dispatches diagrams of vacuum-cleaner parts as classified information.

Clive Francis’s stage adaptation features a priceless scene in which MI5 mandarins examine the evidence of these supposed weapons of mass de-suction.

This adaptation has been presented across the country since it was first seen in 2007, and the Stane Street players will be keen to impress once again.

Witty, inventive and very funny, this four man Cuban escapade, will certainly be worth watching.

Our Man In Havana will be performed by the players at Earls Colne Village Hall and Halstead’s Empire Theatre on May 12 and May 20 respectively.

See www.stanestreetplayers.co.uk, for Earls Colne and to keep up with the Players’ activities or call the Empire Theatre box office on 07778 025490 for Halstead.

Tickets for both performances cost £10.