The Scottish Play will come to the borough but everything is going to go wrong on the night, writes Sophia Sleigh.

The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society is performing Macbeth, but it is one disaster after another.

Even Lady Macbeth fails to turn up and stage manager Henry ends up taking her place.

Ironically everything going wrong is just what the performers, the Tudor Players, are hoping for.

The players, a mixed group of around 20 performers, are bringing this funny performance to Carshalton.

The group, which rehearses in Beddington, performs two shows a year and have performed other plays in the series.

Alison Lee, 50, from Mitcham is the director and has been a member of the group for over 20 years.

She says the group has been rehearsing for about four months and in the last two weeks the play has finally come together.

Ironically all the practice is ensuring the performers do all the wrong things correctly.

She says: "The premise is a townswomen’s guild dramatic society and their drama group putting on various play where everything goes wrong.

"The stage manager is pretty useless - he’s put the set up the wrong way round.

"During Act One they have to stop the action and turn the set round- because it is in the Charles Cryer Theatre - the audience can see it is being done.

"It’s a sort of amateur production where everything goes wrong.

"Unfortunately they are being adjudicated by a local theatre critic."

Lee joked that there should be a lot of old curtains on view as all the costumes are homemade.

She adds: "This is the last opportunity to see the ladies of the Tudor Players fully dressed as we are stripping off in October for Calendar Girls."

The play is suitable for the whole family and Lee says the audience are in for a fun evening.

The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Macbeth, By David Mcgillivray & Walter Zerlin Jnr. Charles Cryer Studio Theatre, 39 High Street Carshalton, 28-31 March, 8pm Wed/Thur, £8.50 Fri/Sat £9.50, 0208 770 6990, suttontheatres.co.uk.