Sitting on the balcony this week waiting for the Playhouse’s first production of the season to start, I pondered the theatre itself.

While watching seven well-produced, well-acted plays each year, it’s easy to take for granted the excellence of your surroundings.

But this really is a delightful place, lovingly maintained by the same volunteers who stage those plays.

An ideal setting to watch the season opener, Peter Quilter’s hilarious and incisive collection of four mini-plays, with only two actors in each, connected by the theme of ‘relationships’.

My favourite was the first, Janet Hardman and John Cohen’s perfectly-observed journey through the agonies of a middle-aged blind date.

Geoff Whitley and Lynne Howell performed a charming tale about a gay tycoon and a besotted secretary determined to marry him.

The comedy was broader in the second half, with divorcing couple Julia Roberts and Kevin Moore bickering on their last holiday together, and Debbie Park and Anthony Calvert as siblings clashing on the eve of the woman’s third wedding.

Each of the playlets were very different, but in common they were hilarious, incisive and directed with understanding by David Hardman Duets continues at Keighley Playhouse until Saturday at 7.30pm. Further details are available by calling 07599 890769.