KEIGHLEY Playhouse puts the backspin on a round of golf next week.

But you don’t have to like golf to enjoy the comedy being presented by the group at its Devonshire Street theatre.

The Fox On The Fairway is set in a country golf club and is described as a typical farce that stays the course.

Everyone is on the move with finely-timed entrances and exits, characters weaving in and out of multiple doors while playing through a romp-riddled fairway full of golf references and innuendo.

David Hardman, the director, said: “Two rival golf clubs take part in the annual tournament with a prodigy, raw oysters and champagne.

“It can only be a score card for disaster, but there'll be laughter among the audience."

David said the audience would expect madcap mania, and The Fox On The Fairway certainly provided hysteria thanks to its “energetic eagle” of a script.

He said: “Timing is everything and not only in the physical sense with relative agility, but also with the lines chipped in by every character.

“Par for the course is granny’s engagement ring, an expensive glass vase and a malfunctioning public address system.

"The critical elements for a farce to be successful are an ever-accelerating rhythm that can’t let up until the last moment, and The Fox On The Fairway is no exception.

“The production slices through all the bitter rivalries and ridiculous bets, cute young lovers and lusty older ones, ex-spouses and ex-significant others, cunning plans and mistaken identities, escalating lies, significant birthmarks and accidental confessions of love.

“It’s all there, straight down the middle."

David stressed that people did not need to know anything about golf to understand the in-jokes as The Fox On The Fairway

“It’s a hole-in-one comedy!” he added.

The Fox On The Fairway is written by Ken Ludwig, who is best known for the hit comedy farce Lend Me A Tenor.

The Fox On The Fairway was first staged in 2010 in the USA, and was publicised as the writer’s tribute to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s.

During its premiere in Virginia one reviewer called the play "a manic race to the intellectual depths propelled by a nonsensical tale of greed, love and stupidity".

The second production the following year was described as phenomenally funny, keeping the audience in stitches, and surpassing Lend Me a Tenor for hilarity.

The Fox On The Fairway is staged from Monday to the following Saturday from 7.30pm. Tickets cost from £5 to £7, and are available by calling 07599 890769.