RICHARD Jackson's mid-life crisis comes to a head when he hits the town with his uncouth painters and decorators.

The character, well played by James Hornsby, gradually degenerates from a successful middle class artist to a hip-swivelling drunken lout when enticed out of his luxury home.

The play mixes loads of down-to-earth humour with touches of menace as the working class and the wealthy vie for social dominance. Gillian Jephcott and Hannah McBride do particularly well handling dual roles as the tartish worker's wives and the posh Mrs Jackson and daughter.

The John Godber's latest play, for me, suffers from too much realism. The characters and their dialogue are so life-like, you don't warm to them. It runs until Saturday. PS