KIDS? No. Married? No. On the brink of divorce? Er, no. So how can a play, which measures relationships, both functional and dysfunctional, possibly ring true with a single, 24-year-old, with little or no experience of life? The answer is quite simple.

As you sit and admire Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce, which has just begun a three-week run at the Torch Theatre, it's difficult not to relate in some way to what is an adept observation of human interaction.

As the farce unravels, played out over one very long evening with "three beds, three bedrooms, three couples and a fourth couple straight from their wildest nightmares," as the playwright puts it, you're faced with glaring similarities of how you are, were, or are likely to be in the future.

The performances in one of Ayckbourn's earliest plays, are as you would expect, very polished and played with consummate ease.

However, many of the laughs were reserved for John Pennington and Kate Dove, who play the more mature couple, Ernest and Delia.

It's fair to say they have some fantastic lines, but I did sense that the predom-inantly older audience connected a little bit more with the couple.

As we've come to expect from a director who has taken this little Welsh theatre onto a greater plain, Peter Doran's latest production is smartly choreographed, made more impressive by the fact he shared his director's hat with fellow actor, Kate Dove.

The seamless direction, combined with a first-class set and intelligent lighting, culminates in a play that will have you swaying from gentle giggling, to raucous laughter, not only at the characters, but also at yourself.