Stones comes to Brighton lauded with praise and awards for Best New Comedy, an Olivier and three Tony Nominations.

It is a bittersweet comedy about the impact of a film crew who are making a movie in a small village in County Kerry.

There are more than 20 characters in the show but all are played by just two actors, Martin Jenkins and Christopher Patrick Nolan, with no help from scenery or set and only the occasional change of boots and jackets.

It is an excellent tour-de-force piece of theatre and based very much on the experiences of the author (Marie Jones), who has enjoyed a parallel career as an actor and taken part in many films set in Ireland.

She appeared in the film The Name Of The Father and will soon be seen playing George Best's mother in the biopic George Best - The Legendary Footballer.

Her script for Stones is witty, highly amusing and contains some great one-liners.

We first meet our two actors as they play Charlie Conlon (Jenkins) and Jake Quinn (Nolan), extras working for a daily rate on the making of The Quiet Valley.

But they soon become everybody and Nolan is particularly good as Aisling, the gushing girlie assistant in charge of extras who is constantly making eyes at grumpy assistant director Simon.

And from being the cute bimbo, Nolan hunches himself up to play the ancient and wizened old Mickey, a local whose great claim to fame is that he is the soul surviving extra from John Ford's film The Quiet Man.

He also turns up as his own cousin Sean, a youngster who is into drugs but has a lifelong ambition to be a movie star.

Jenkins is the aggressive director, Clem, and also plays Brother Gerard, the man who seems to have taught all the extras when they were schoolboys.

But he is magnificent when he becomes the curvaceous and beautiful star of the film, Caroline Giovanni.

The fast-paced changing of characters is achieved with just a change of voice, a gesture, a different walk, a new pose and in some cases, almost by osmosis.

Shows on Thursday, June 1 and Friday, June 2. Starts 7.45pm. Tickets £23/£15. Call 08700 606650.