The next major production in the Wharfeside Theatre at Ilkley Playhouse is Alan Ayckbourn’s highly popular Bedroom Farce which opens for a fortnight’s run on Monday, April 28.

The comedy has attracted huge audiences since its first performance in 1975.

The play takes place in three bedrooms during one night and the following morning and introduces us to four married couples.

Initially, we meet Delia and Ernest who are getting ready to go out for a meal to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Malcolm and Kate are about to host a housewarming party, to which the other two couples, Jan and Nick and Susannah and Trevor (the only ones whose bedroom is not seen), have been invited.

However, Nick has hurt his back and is unable to go. A complicating factor is that Jan was formerly Trevor's girlfriend: after Susannah and Trevor have a blazing row, Susannah finds Trevor kissing Jan. Susannah flees the party and goes to visit Delia and Ernest – they are Trevor's parents. Events develop farcically from this point onwards, inevitably. The play is directed by Pam Gresty.

Tonight until Saturday, local playwright Ash Caton is staging his latest comedy, Three Stars For Your Suicide, in the Wildman Studio. A personification of art revisits his past in order to learn from past errors and to improve the world of art for the future.

Online booking will be available until 5.30pm on Saturday – some tickets may be available at the door.

On Saturday, the Playhouse is screening Steven Soderbergh’s Behind the Candelabra, which tells the story of Liberace’s last few years and his relationship with Scott Thorson. The film is based on Thorson’s memoir Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. Critics were particularly impressed by Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in the leading roles.

The screening starts at 4pm and tickets are £4 (with no intermission) and will be available on the door as well as online.

On Sunday, the Playhouse welcomes Hilary Green, author of popular historical novels such as We’ll Meet Again (based on the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry). Hilary’s versatile career has included teaching drama – Daniel Craig was one of her pupils – as well as being tutored by well-known author Louis de Bernieres. The event starts at 3pm and tickets are £7/£5. Highly recommended.

The event is part of a series of literary talks throughout spring, the next of which will feature Hilary Roper, a children’s author and illustrator, on Sunday April 27.

Her book Macfaddion’s Finest Hour was published in 1990. It was chosen by the Lancashire Children’s Librarian Association as their entry for the Children’s Book of the Year Award, 1991.

The illustrations were valued by Sotheby’s at more than £10,000. Hilary is currently writing novels and painting large oil paintings of sweeping landscapes.

The day before Hilary Roper’s visit there is another cinema event when the theatre screens Le Week-End on Saturday, April 26 at 4pm (in association with CineYorkshire).

The popular film features a British couple have a second honeymoon in Paris in an attempt to rejuvenate their 30-year-old marriage.

The film stars Jeff Goldblum, Lindsay Duncan and Jim Broad-bent.

To book call (01943) 609539 from 9.30am-6.30pm, Monday to Friday. For further information and to book online, visit ilkleyplayhouse.co.uk.