Holiday camp humour came to Guisborough

Good morning campers! You were all invited to join in the fun at Guisborough Parish Hall in Bow Street in July when the town's theatre club performed the stage play of the highly popular 80s TV classic sitcom, Hi-de Hi!

Set in Maplins Holiday Camp in 1959, all your favourite characters from the original television series by Jimmy Perry and David Croft were brought back to life in the play by Paul Carpenter and Ian Gower.

It was the start of a new season and founder Joe Maplin announced that he was setting up a camp in the Bahamas. He needed female yellowcoats to go and work out there and the annual "Miss Yellowcoat" competition was to decide who was to go.

Rivalry between the girls was fierce, with Sylvia and Gladys joint forerunners to win the coveted yellow sash. Camp cleaner Peggy, meanwhile, was thrilled at the prospect of a vacancy for a new yellowcoat and convinced Entertainments Manager Jeffrey that she was the ideal candidate for the job.

Ted was forced to employ numerous money-making schemes when his ex-wife turns up at the camp with a bailiff in tow and dance partners Yvonne and Barry Stuart-Hargreaves sent the rumour mill into overdrive when they overheared Gladys escorting Jeffrey into his chalet late one evening.

Under the co-direction of Gill Barlow and Colin Worswick, Guisborough Theatre Club staged this hilarious play for three nights from Thursday 14th - Saturday 16th July 2011.

Hi-de-hi, campers!