TAKING over a sedate deluxe London hotel, Neil Simon's characters raise all kinds of trouble in London Suite,

Presented by the New Kinver Players at the Edward Marsh Centre, Kinver, at the end of June, the series short comedies follows four stories set in the hotel room.

In Settling Accounts the suite is occupied by a writer who is holding his long time business manager, caught absconding with the writers money , at gun point. The villain concocts increasingly far-fetched explanations of what he was doing at Heathrow with the cash.

An American widow and her daughter, who are in England to buy shoes, take over the suite in Going Home. At the daughter's insistence, her Mother spends her last evening in London with a rich Scotsman.

Act two starts on a bittersweet note with Diana and Sidney, another chapter in the lives of two characters from California Suite. Diana, the Oscar winning actress, and Sidney, her bisexual husband, are now divorced and are seeing each other for the first time in years. He needs money for his lover who is dying of cancer. The money is not a problem for Diana but the realization that she still loves him is.

The evening ends with hotel guests in The Man on the Floor who are a married couple from Los Angeles. They have lost their tickets to Wimbledon and are about to lose their suite to Kevin Costner, who absolutely must have it now.

Tickets for the show, which will play from Wednesday to Saturday, June 24 to 27, at 7.30pm are available online from newkinverplayers.org.uk or from Omnipresent in Kinver either by calling 01384 877746 or going in to the shop between 9am and 5.30pm Monday to Saturday. Patrons wishing to obtain tickets should call Maureen Baker on 01384 440471.