Dirty Den is back

This time he’s all washed up in brand new soap drama where life imitates art…

Some of TV’s best loved soap stars are heading for the Corn Exchange, this time as one of the super-soap cast in a new play which sees them playing ‘real life’ stars, acting out their fates in a desperate and failing fictional TV soap. Leslie Grantham (Dirty Den, Eastenders), Michelle Gayle (Hattie Tavernier, Eastenders), Louis Emerick (Mick Johnson, Brookside), Graham Cole (PC Tony Stamp, The Bill) and Lee Otway (David ‘Bombhead’ Burke, Hollyoaks) are amongst the familiar faces in

a playwritten by Jamie Alexander Wilson

The play centres on

, a weekly TV soap that’s been on air for nearly 20 years, with terrible plot lines, a familiar cast of stereotyped characters and a rapidly declining viewing audience. With the show on its last legs, a radical shake up is planned by its cut-throat new producer. Roles are for the chop. New blood will be brought in.The actors’ futures are at stake and the battle is on to save their careers - at any cost.

is a funny and fast-paced ‘whodunnit’ farce, that parodies the popular soaps we all love, which comes to Newbury, from October 8 to 11. www.cornexchangenew.com