Organiser Bill Brennan, artistic director of Arundel's Drip Action Theatre company, is delighted with the line-up he's secured.

The plays selected for the 2008 trail (Aug 23-30) are:

11am - Arundel Football Club, Mill Road. Sat Love - a newly-commissioned play by Simon Brett. A businessman plays with his new toy –and it's not Hayley from Accounts.

12 Noon - 28 High Street. Ice by Tonya James. How to mend a damaged teenager?

1pm - St Mary's Hall, London Road. Self Assembly by Jeffrey Mayhew. Watch out for splinters.

2pm - The Victoria Club, Tarrant Street. The Unentitled by Pete Stephenson. Dark doings in an unknown government department.

3pm - The India Gate, Mill Lane. The Widow's Curves by Maggie Ferrari. Greece 1943. How persuadable is the occupying German officer?

4pm - The Swan Hotel, High Street. Undone by Judy Upton.
Funny things, phobias.

5pm - 57 Maltravers Street. Sour Grapes by Jennifer Pulling. A sensitive writer corresponds with one of her more volatile readers.

6pm - Prospekt, 57 Tarrant Street. Therapy by Dick Curran.
Can a driving instructor mend his ways?

The plays -except for the commissioned piece - were selected from a field of 40, less than a half the number the Trail received in its best year ever, but still more than enough to ensure entertainment, feels Bill.

"We ask that people keep them simple to do, but if we get something that is really oustanding, we find ways of doing it. But because of the staging, we ask for the pieces to be simple in terms of the staging and the number of people involved.

"There are no set patterns in what we are looking for, but the way it works out, there is usually a serious one in there. The plays are lightish and then not so light. Somehow the right flavour emerges for what we want."

Bill is delighted to include a couple of new venues for this year - above the Indian restuarant and also St Mary's Hall.

Also new for the series is the inclusion of effectively a period piece with the war-time play set in Greece.

"We have got another nice mixed bag coming up," Bill said.
For licensing reasons all plays will be performed at the times stated on Wednesday August 27 at just the one venue, The Victoria Club, Tarrant Street.

Theatre Trail tickets are £5 (£3 students) on the door or season tickets £30 (no concessions) available from the Zimmer Stewart Gallery, 29 Tarrant Street, Arundel. Telephone 01903 885867.

Season ticket holders are guaranteed seats only up to 15 minutes before the start of any Theatre Trail performance.