Recently ArtsEd School of Acting presented Sauce For the Goose by Georges Feydeau.

First of all a confession - I don't like farce, even those of such a master of the art as the supreme French farceur Georges Feydeau.

Correction, I didn't like farce, because here I found it quite impossible to resist the speed, skill and high spirits of this brilliant production.

This was ensemble playing of the highest order as complication followed complication and laugh followed laugh until the stage exploded in a final wild melee which somehow managed to maintain a mad logic.

Special praise must be given for the lavish sets and the delightful costumes which evoked the very spirit of Gay Paree in the Gay Nineties.

As the couple at the heart of the whirlpool, Laura Haddock, truly a beauty, and Jay Edward Owens were outstanding as was Tom Beynolds as the serpent in their marriage Eden.

Richard Langton