Eastern Angles’ latest regional touring show is a production of Colchester playwright Nicola Werenowska’s Guesthouse.

Dealing with the lives of three generations of women who have to set aside their differences to decide the fate of their family-run bed and breakfast, the play is inspired by Nicola’s childhood spent in the seaside town.

Guesthouse owner Val has been taken ill and both her daughter Lisa and grand-daughter Chloe have arrived to lend a hand. But tensions between them are running high, especially with a past that led to Lisa going away and ‘Mummy’ Val taking care of Chloe.

Making its premiere at the John Peel Centre in Stowmarket last week, the play has been directed by Tony Casement, who is well known for his many acclaimed past productions at the Mercury Theatre in Colchester.

Former Mercury Company actor Clare Humphrey is also in the cast as Lisa, while Amanda Bellamy plays Val and Eleanor Jackson is Chloe.

With a simple, but very effective set, Guesthouse has some rather wonderful visuals projected on to the bed and breakfast’s back wall and curtains which transport the audience back to Clacton’s hey day in the Sixties.

This marks out one of the many themes of the play, which asks what is it like when the town you were proud to grow up in becomes impoverished.

With some cracking performances, Guesthouse also takes a very intimate look at the relationship between the three women as they deal with a difficult past and uncertain present.

As part of a mammoth three-month tour, the play next arrives at the West Cliff Theatre in Clacton on Tuesday, March 27, at 7.30pm. Tickets are £12, £10 for over 60s, from 01255 433344.

For the rest of the tour, Guesthouse is also staged at Brightlingsea Community Centre on April 4; Walton Community Hall on April 11; and Wrabness Village Hall on May 10.