SUTTON thespians are in rude health as they prepare to launch their 2014/15 season.

Sutton’s Green Hut Theatre Company are presenting the farce No Sex Please We’re British this weekend.

The comedy play – billed as “containing adult humour” – will be followed over the next few months by a more family-friendly pantomime and a nostalgic wartime musical.

No Sex Please We’re British portrays the comic chaos after a bank clerk accidently receives pornographic material through the post.

The play continues a tradition of seaside-postcard naughtiness for the village’s theatre group.

Green Hut, then named Sutton Amateurs, began its saucy streak almost a decade with the stage version of TV sitcom ‘Allo ‘Allo.

Since then there has also been Mike Harding’s northern comedy Fur Coat And No Knickers, the stage adaptation of 70s TV comedy Up Pompeii, and TV sitcom adaptation Are You Being Served.

Immediately after No Sex Please We’re British, Green Hut will begin rehearsals for its December pantomime Dick Whittington And His Cat.

The panto, written by Green Hut members Dean Harness, David Knights and Phil Smith, follows the traditional story of the boy who became Lord Mayor of London.

Dick heads for the capital to make his fortune and, with his new feline friend, foils the plans of King Rat and his minions.

Dick falls for the alderman’s daughter, is framed for theft, stows away on a ship and encounters cannibals before finally winning through.

Dick Whittington, which includes a feast of pop songs from across five decades, will be staged on December 10 to 13.

Green Hut will present its annual musical on April 22 to 25 next year.

The show will be a revival of When The Lights Go On Again, which the group first presented several years ago to commemorate the Second World War.

The show proved so popular with both cast and audiences that Green Hut became one of the first amateur theatre groups in the country to sign up for it again, to mark the 70th anniversary of the war’s end.

The show follows the story of one fictional British family through the entire war, both on the Home Front and as relatives and friends go off to fight.

The nostalgic show is actuated by classic songs from the war years.

All three productions will be staged at Sutton Village Hall. No Sex Please We’re British will be performed tomorrow and Saturday from 7pm.

Tickets cost £8.50 including supper, from Place’s Place, Main Street, Sutton, or by calling 01535 632289. There will be a bar.