A 'CHEEKY' comedy will launch a new season of plays at Chester's longest running theatre.

Dirty Dusting will kick of the 2023/24 season at Chester Little Theatre in Gloucester Street, Newtown. The classic play, by Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood, will be directed for the venue by Margaret Bennett.

Set in typical office block, the play centres around the humdrum lives of cleaners Elsie, Gladys, Olive and their supervisor Dave. When the ladies hear that they will have to re-apply for their jobs due to a cleaning agency being brought in, the chances of them all being re-employed seem slim but, thanks to an opportune phone call which turns out to be a wrong number, Olive comes up with a novel idea to earn them all a bit of money and before long, they find themselves running a saucy sex chat-line during their last working weekend. Will it work, will they get found out? What could possibly go wrong?

Speaking about the play, Margaret Bennett said: "Dirty Dusting is a poignant comedy about a group of warm-hearted ladies who have overcome adversity many times in their lives and will do so again.

"Although the premise is about a sex chat-line, we are left to imagine the adult sexual references on the other end of the telephone line, but expect plenty of comic, saucy references on the part of the ladies!"

Dirty Dusting will run at the popular city centre venue from Saturday, September 16 to Saturday, September 23 at 7.30pm with a matinee performance at 2.30pm on September 23.

The venue will also play host to Chester-based theatre company Against The Grain as they present psychological murder mystery Agnes of God by John Pielmeier in the Salisbury Studio from Thursday, October 19 to Saturday, October 21.

Other season highlights include an adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol in November whilst visiting company White Cobra make a welcome return with Lilies on the Land, an extraordinary story of the Women's Land Army during World War II.

The new season also includes Road by Jim Cartwright, Birthday Club by Phil Olson, a production of Samuel Beckett's classic play Waiting For Godot and a rip-roaring adaptation of The Hound of The Baskervilles.

The theatre will host the Cheshire One Act Drama Festival in March 2024.

Full details and ticketing information for Dirty Dusting can be found at www.chesterlittletheatre.co.uk. Alternatively, contact TicketSource on 0333 663366.