This play, which has enjoyed two successful tours of the UK starring George Cole, Roy Hudd and Leslie Grantham, begins with a couple and their friends returning home to find they have been burgled. But they soon become suspicious of the 'policeman' who arrives to investigate and succeeds in disrupting two seemingly happy marriages and one formerly strong friendship.

Among the cast are Mary Newey and John Atkinson, straight from the highly successful production of Act Your Age at the Abbeydale Picture House. In that John played a gay photographer but here he is playing the suspicious 'policeman' Spriggs and is almost never off the stage and has scope to exploit his natural comedic talent.

Mary Newey is playing a drunken wife and has not needed persuasion to go to the pub after rehearsals for the sake of research. Playing her husband is Graham Seaton, last seen with DEP as Aslan in The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe at the Crucible Studio. In Theft he plays a very successful businessman who comes from a poor upbringing. As the play progresses we see that there could be cracks in his marriage to Barbara and perhaps his best friend Trevor is not as loyal as he would think.
Jan Ibberson, who appeared with DEP in March as a downtrodden dowdy friend in Day Trippers, part of Deckchairs, has a much more glamorous role in this production, married to Trevor, but is their marriage as safe as it seems?

John Castell takes the role of Trevor; John's best friend from childhood when he protected him at school and has stuck by him into adulthood, but how genuine was that?

Theft runs at the Library Theatre from Wednesday to Saturday. Tickets at £6 from 2748299.