You would be hard pressed to go seven days without finding some Shakespeare on somewhere in London and next week it's the turn of the Lantern Arts Centre to have a go.

The production team have decided to dip their toes into the Bard's legendary work for the first time with a performance of Twelfth Night for their summer production.

"We thought we would give Shakespeare a bit of a whirl," says co-producer John Palbot who this week stepped in to the directors chair after the normal occupant was forced into hospital.

"We haven't done it before so we thought why not.

"It has been very interesting and something new for us and new for everyone that comes to see it.

"We have done quite a few Victorian plays like Importance of being Earnest, Oliver and Oklahoma and quite a few comedies but we have not done a large number of straight plays.

"It's something we are playing with, though saying that Twelfth Night is a quite a funny play as it is."

There have been many attempts to change Shakespeare's works and bring it to the modern era - remember Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet anyone? - and all but a handful have failed.

Palbot and the rest of the team though decided not to mess with a master's work and stuck to Shakespeare's original text, with a small twist.

"Apart from a bit of editing in a few places we have kept with Shakespeare's script," he said.

"We are using Elizabethan English though and setting it in 1920s and 1930s costumes."

Twelfth Night, Lantern Arts Centre, Tolverne Road, Raynes Park, July 15 to 18, 7pm (Sat matinee, 2.30pm), £10. Call 020 8944 5794 or visit lanternarts.org.