REMEMBER Alastair Sim as the headmaster, Margaret Rutherford as the indomitable headmistress and Joyce Grenfell as delightfully dotty games mistress Miss Gossage ("Call me Sausage") in The Happiest Days Of Your Life?

Next week, Haxby Players present the stage version of John Drighton's post-war British comedy at Haxby Memorial Hall.

In this jolly night out at Hilary Hall, the all-boys boarding school is told that another school will be billeted there due to wartime restrictions. What's more, it will be a girls' school. Shocking! Soon the two head teachers are battling for supremacy, fighting each other and the ministry, but a crisis forces them to work together.

For this gleeful send-up of boarding-school culture, director Andy Love has assembled a school rota of familiar Haxby names: Robin Sanger, Brenda Sanger, Ron Jevons, Geraldine Jevons, Dave Hudson, Brena Riley, Austin Barnett, Sheila Barnett, Peter Major, Moira Hogg and Victoria Clamp. The Players also welcome back Steve Wilcox, who last appeared as Henry VIII in A Man For All Seasons.

School assembly will be at 7.30pm, Wednesday to Saturday. Tickets: £4 pre-paid, £5 on the door; ring 01904 425099 to book.

Updated: 09:55 Friday, October 22, 2004