WELL-known Keighley actors Peter Whitley and Gilly Rogers will appear in a classic farce in Bingley in July.

The Keighley Playhouse regulars will play Argan and Toinette in Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere’s farce The Hypochondriac from July 3 to 8.

The Hypochondriac is a comedy adapted from the original Moliere script by Richard Bean and is in the same style as the successful West End comedy Man With Two Guvnors.

Argan is the hopeless, lying hypochondriac who spends countless amounts of money trying to prove he has various ailments, including much reference to his daily enema.

He is a desperately trying to force his daughter Angelique to marry a doctor in order to reduce his medical bills. Angelique is in love with Cliente, one of Argan’s apprentices. If she won’t marry the doctor’s son, Angelique will be sent to a convent and inherit nothing.

Beline is Argan’s current scheming wife who wants to get her hands on his fortune whilst having an affair with her solicitor friend Deuxfois.

Add to this his loyal maid Toinette who wears many hats and keeps the thread of the story, along with Doctor Diafoirerhoea and his would be suitor son Thomas.

Argan’s brother arrives on the scene to help Argan see some sense. Quick wit, asides and slick dialogue await the audience in a production directed by Jonathan Scott.

The play will be performed at Bingley Arts Centre each night at 7.30pm. Visit ticketsource.co.uk/bingleyartscentre or call 01274 567983 to book tickets.

Bingley Little Theatre will open its 2017/18 season with a comedy by leading sitcom writer Eric Chappell, entitled Theft, on September 18-23.

The Arts Centre will host a Showcase by Bingley Little Theatre’s youth theatre Kaleidoscope from July 13 to 16. Bradford performing school Stage 84 will present a Broadway Musical Showcase at the Arts Centre on July 20 to 22, while Myrtle Park Primary School will present the musical Bugsy Malone on July 24.