The Birnbeck Actors Company was formed in 2010 as a group of professional and semi-professional actors who came together with a common goal to bring high quality theatre entertainment to Somerset and the surrounding areas of Bath and Bristol.

Based in Weston-super-Mare the members of the company have backgrounds in theatre, music and television, both treading the boards and backstage so are well versed in all that is needed to provide a good night's entertainment. The only thing they lack, and this is where you come in dear reader, is an audience. We hope you will be tempted by the details of the next production as well as the home-made cakes which will be laid on in the interval and want to come along and be part of the magic.

Rather than having a fixed theatre, the Birnbeck Actors Company want to tour the area putting shows on in new and different venues. If you'd like them to visit your hall or theatre then please contact us.

Cooking with Elvis is a black farce first performed in Edinburgh in 1999 and then at the following year's Edinburgh Festival before transferring to the Whitehall Theatre in London's West End and starring Frank Skinner, Sharon Percy, Charlie Hardwick and Joe Caffrey.

The show is by turns comic, intensely dark, camp and unsettling. It deals with the destruction of family life by the hand of fate.

To make a Recipe for Disaster you take Dad, an amateur Elvis impersonator, who was crippled in a car crash, add a manic Mam who can't cope with the situation anymore, throw in their emotionally charged daughter Jill and mix well with sexy but stupid Stuart - Mam's new beau!

Mum copes with life through a white wine veil and Jill thinks chocolate puddings are happiness condensed. Stuart knows sex relieves tension and love causes it while Dad just loves The King.

Take the three most satisfying things in the world - Food, Sex and Elvis - and you have Cooking with Elvis.

Cooking with Elvis is on Friday 27th May 2011 at 8pm. Tickets are £10 available from the Rondo Theatre, Bath - 01225 463362

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads series for the BBC in the late 1980s was wildly acclaimed for the quality of its writing and for the skill of the performers, including luminaries such as Patricia Routledge, Thora Hird and even Bennett himself. The Birnbeck Actors Company's opened their portfolia with a well received performance at Bleadon's Coronation Hall in September 2010.

Carole Penhorwood plays Susan in Bed Among the Lentils Susan is an alcoholic, nervous vicar's wife who distracts herself from her insensitive husband and his doting parishioners by conducting an affair with a nearby grocer and discovering something about herself and God in the process...

Dean Harris plays Graham Whittaker in A Chip in the Sugar Middle-aged Graham Whittaker finds life increasingly complicated living at home with his mother when she reunites with an old flame who then proposes marriage and moving Graham out of the family home. Troubled by mental health problems, Graham goes on a journey of discovery about both himself and this new suitor but what will the price of his happiness be?

Halyey Richards plays Lesley in Her Big Chance Lesley is an aspiring actress who never manages to land anything more glamorous than as an extra in Crossroads. Then a big break in a new film for a niche West German market comes her way but it's not clear to what extent Lesley understands what that niche actually is...