Anight of laughter, song, cross-dressing, practical joking, sword fights and poetry is promised by Street Theatre's latest production.

Is it a pantomime or a musical? No, it's a play by William Shakespeare.

Award winning Street Theatre Company is performing its first Shakespeare play for some years with Twelfth Night, which runs at Strode Theatre, in Street, from Thursday, March 11, to Saturday, March 13.

One of Shakespeare's most loved and performed plays, it has a main plot which tells of loss, love and reunion with an interwoven comic sub-plot of revenge and retribution.

Count Orsino is madly infatuated with the Lady Olivia... but she's more interested in the count's strange, young man-servant Cesario... who is actually a young woman (Viola) in disguise... and herself falling madly in love with Orsino.

Antonio the sea captain is in love with Sebastian, Olivia's twin brother. Sir Andrew and Sir Toby are in love with each other, and drinking, and Malvolio is in love with himself.

Confused? Then Street theatre invite people to come and watch this production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and see how it all turns out.

Too many people have bad memories of Shakespeare from school days, but now is the time to rid yourselves of them and enjoy the lively entertainment that Shakespeare's plays can offer. Twelfth Night is a play of anarchy and revelry, a time to poke fun at the pompous, the self-righteous and the self-indulgent.

Street Theatre boasts some prodigious talent and aims to carry the audience along on a roller coaster ride of ribald humour and passionate poetry.

The subtitle of the play is What You Will so the audience can be intimately involved.

People are invited to join in with the laughter, the scheming – even the songs. The more people get involved the more can be taken out of it. Some of the cast involved are Morwenna Ridgeon as Olivia, Edgar Phillips as Sir Toby, Dennis Barwell as Malvolio, Lu Lanfranchi as Orsino, Karen Trevis as Maria, Susie Tookey as Viola and Rik Baker as Sebastian.

Performances are at 7.30pm each night and tickets are £9.50 and can be booked online at www.strodetheatre.co.uk, by phone on 01458 442846 or in person at the box office.