It is difficult to believe that this is Adam Mack’s acting debut.

As the central character in Adrian Hodges’ play, he is on stage virtually throughout its 2 ¼ hours and seldom puts a foot wrong.

He is required to be flip, conniving, exasperated and exasperating as the rake with his eye – and hands – on his partner’s two sisters. It is a role he handles with assurance and aplomb and it is safe to assume we can expect to see him on a Witham stage again.

The play revolves round the interplay between Mack’s character Michael and the ghost of his recently departed brother George, played knowingly and chirpily by Graeme Parrett with lots of metaphorical winks and sideglances.

Tracy Skingley is the stoic and slightly tragic live-in girlfriend while Carolyn Horsfield’s Debbie is slowly sucked in to Michael’s philandering web.

Joyce, the third sister and George’s wife, takes rather longer to succumb to Michael’s charms and quickly recovers her senses to return to her role as the head of the household, albeit Michael’s rather than George’s.