Visitors to the Landor Theatre next week are in for a double dose of comedy fun as members of the Player-Playwrights put on back-to-back performances of two original plays, both written by Eddie Coleman.

Director Amber Homes tells GRAHAM MOODY all about Houston, We Have a Problem and Come As U R, which the group did as a showcase last year and got such a good response they decided to do a full version.

Houston, We Have A Problem

"Imagine your worst nightmare of meeting your mother-in-law and take that to the extreme.

"David brings home his new wife Gemma after a business trip and says to his mum this is my new wife and the mum says no it's not, I don't accept her.

"It's about how these relationships develop and the experience of being a single mother in the 1960s.

"It also looks at co-dependency and how you bring someone else into that fixture.

"It's quite funny and is a completely new piece that has never been done before.

"It has a great script and Eddie has done quite a few plays that have been around the fringes and he is growing and growing as a playwright."

Come As U R?

"It's about two couples meeting for the first time.

"As an audience you are not quite sure what is happening but as it develops you get interesting moments where there are these looks and there is this tension.

"Then you realise they are there to swap wives and it's a swingers evening.

"It's about couples that have been together for a long time and there has been a break down in communication and they are trying to reignite the romance.

"Sometimes couples can move forward and sometimes it's about saying the relationship is over.

"It's very funny and has got an Alan Ayckbourn kind of humour to it."

Houston, We Have A Problem and Come As U R, Landor Theatre, Landor Road, March 16 to 21, 7.30pm, Sunday matinee 2.30pm, £10. Call 020 7737 7276 or visit landortheatre.co.uk.