LAURA Wade’s first published play, Colder than Here, was first produced 20 years ago. It was championed in the south west by the Sturminster Newton-based Taboo Theatre, with tours from 2006. Laura and her partner Sam West came to see a Taboo show in an open sided, and very cold, tent.

Now the versatile Swan Theatre company is staging the play, from 17th to 22nd March in Yeovil. Directed by Liz Stallard, it is the story of Myra, a wife and mother who decides she wants to take her impending death from bone cancer into her own control, by choosing the perfect place and the perfect way in which to depart this life. Her husband is distant and mostly in denial. Her children are grown up but bicker like children, leaving Myra to sort it out on her own.

It is funny, poignant and infuriating in equal measures, and launched the playwright into a career that has included POSH and Home, I’m Darling.

Performances at the Swan start at 7.45.