Stirling’s Theatre Broad company is touring a production of two of Clifford Bax’s plays. Prelude and Fugue and Square Pegs are two two-handers and they are for women actors. I’ve long been a devotee of two-handers and these do not disappoint. Theatre Broad handle the poetic writing of Prelude and Fugue with confidence and the comedy of Square Pegs with ease.

Carol Metcalf returns to the role of Rosemary in this revival of the company’s 2016 production of Prelude and Fugue and is joined in it by Katy-Louise Pritchett. Can two women discover the essential nature of one man they both loved?

Kerrie Leanne Sellick, another Theatre Broad regular, plays Hilda in Square Pegs and is joined by newcomer, Lara Fabiani playing Italian Gioconda. Is the grass greener in a different time? Time-slip novels are very popular and perhaps Bax was ahead of his time with this take on the nature of passion in different centuries.

The first play is a thought-provoking and intelligent look at the difficulty of telling another person the love of their life is a cad. The second is more of a romp as two young women act out their fantasy of life in a different age.

Ably supported by Rhian Campbell and David Reid-Kay, the production tours to The Macrobert Art Centre Stirling 15th September. Tickets 01786 46 66 66 at 7.30

Thereafter to Theatre Royal, Dumfries, University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness, The Little Theatre, Nairn, The Webster Theatre, Glasgow, Heron Theatre, Cumbria, The Fullarton, Castle Douglas.