This is a rare chance to see David Suchet without the familiar Poirot moustache and doing something other than exercising "the little grey cells."

Though he's best known for his TV work, like the recent Murder in Mind, he has an impressive stage c.v.

This includes playing the scheming Salieri in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus.

Now he's coming to Malvern to play in Terrence Rattigan's Man and Boy.

Rattigan's plays go in and out of fashion like flares.

For a while, in the late 40's and early 50's, he was one of the West End's brightest stars with plays like The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version.

When the "angry young men" of the theatre burst onto the scene in the 1960's Rattigan's style of plays became deeply unfashionable.

Now his plays are being revived and reinterpreted - starting with The Deep Blue Sea.

Man and Boy is about a powerful financier, Gregor Antonescu, who visits his estranged son at his Greenwich Village apartment in an attempt to dig himself out of the most catastrophic disaster of his career.

After newspaper headlines report that the FBI are looking for Gregor, one by one his wife and business associates desert him.

Only his son refuses to leave.

Set in New York in the 1930s, the play looks at the relationship between a father and son and is set against a backdrop of love, betrayal and high finance.