Vicar of Dibley at Rugby Theatre

Buy photos » Vicar of Dibley - Dean Mills (as Hugo), Steve Crump (as David), Marie Phillips (as Geraldine), and Michele Marsella (as Alice). Photo by Martin Pulley. (s)

THE VICAR of Dibley is coming to Rugby.

An adaptation of the hit BBC comedy is being staged by Rugby Theatre from Saturday (May 11) to Saturday May 18.

When their vicar passed away in the middle of a service, the inhabitants of the small Oxfordshire village of Dibley expected his replacement to be another old man with a beard, a Bible and bad breath.

Instead, they got a babe with a bob-cut and a magnificent bosom. Geraldine Granger is a woman - yes, woman - who enjoys nothing more than a good laugh and a packet of chocolate hob nobs. The thoroughly modern, pop music loving vicar is far from the only eccentric character in the village, however.

The locals include the very, very dim verger Alice Tinker, David Horton the pompous parish councilor, Hugo his indecisive son, the incomprehensible Jim Trott, Frank the boring parish clerk, straight-talking farmer Owen Newitt and terrible cook Laetitia Cropley.

The play consists of three episodes from the television series -Songs of Praise, Celebrity Vicar and Love and Marriage.

Tickets for the production – top price £12 (concessions available) online via www.rugbytheatre.co.uk or by calling the box office on 2 (weekday evenings 7pm to 8pm, Saturday mornings 10.30am to 12.30am and during the week of the show noon to 2pm).

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