IF you loved Game of Thrones – or maybe never saw it but still couldn’t escape its omnipresence – don’t miss A&E Comedy’s brilliant spoof, Game of Crones, coming to Dorchester Corn Exchange on Friday 27th February at 7.30pm. Sharpen your swords and fill your goblets – the dragons have returned … Abigail Dooley and Emma Joy Edwards, professional idiots since 1880 (they don’t look THAT old!), have created a ferociously funny, gloriously unapologetic celebration of women in their prime.

Part epic quest, part riotous rebellion, Game of Crones sees the duo storming back onto the battlefield to confront the so-called “third age” – that mythical land where society insists women quietly disappear.

A long, long time ago (2018), A&E Comedy first took up arms with Enter the Dragons, slaying the beast of midlife with fearless buffoonery. Now, destiny calls once more. Donning the armour of absurdity, these dauntless fools march into perilous territory: empty nests, raging hot flushes, reinvention, invisibility – and the nagging question… is this the end, or a spectacular new beginning?

Funny, feral and defiantly feminist, Game of Crones blends anarchic comedy, physical silliness and razor-sharp insight. Expect wisdom wrestled from chaos, laughter ripped from despair, and the hard-won treasures of experience – ideally washed down with a very decent Rioja. These are warriors who will not go gentle into bingo night.

“We’ve stopped trying to make sense of the world, and are claiming joy as an act of resistance,” they say. “That feels radical and empowering – especially as older women who are encouraged to be invisible and behave.”

Game of Crones is also at Exeter’s Phoenix arts centre on Wednesday 25th March.