An aclaimed theatre company has taken its latest production on tour after a sell-out two nights at home in South East Cornwall.

CAMP Theatre, based in Menheniot, has chosen the Alan Ayckbourn dark comedy ‘Woman in Mind’ as its stage play for this season.

The story follows dissatisfied housewife Susan, who is ignored by her husband and son. A head injury in the garden leads her into vivid hallucinations of an imagined life in which she is adored by her husband and fulfilled by her career as a novelist.

‘Susan is one person yet, in her head, she inhabits two worlds – one real, one imaginary,’ said a CAMP Theatre spokesperson.

‘Her mind begins to unravel with hilarious hallucinations in which her boring and oppressive life is replaced by her fantasy.

‘Alan Ayckbourn has been described as the comic poet of middle-class life. In this dark comedy, where the mood can switch from laugh out loud humour to moments of great poignancy in an instant, he explores an exciting new direction.’

Reviewer Richard Barbery says the ’fine storytelling and ensemble acting under the steady direction of Steve Jefferies is a brilliantly absorbing night at the theatre’.

CAMP Theatre is a not-for-profit community theatre company that has been in existence since 1994. In that time it has raised more than £60,000 for a wide range of local, national and international charities.

CAMP is now touring Woman in Mind across Devon and Cornwall in association with Sterts Theatre.

The show will be at Sterts Studio, Upton Cross this Friday (November 8) and at the Downderry Working Men’s Club and Village Hall on Friday November 15.