ASHBRITTLE Arts’ autumn/winter season begins on Saturday (September 28) at 7.30pm with Richard Crowe’s one-man show Over the Wall Picking Apples.

This Wassail production, directed by Ged Stephenson, is a darkly comic play about mental health, telling the story of a Somerset man facing up to bi-polar disorder.

Happily married with a lovely house on the Somerset Levels, Richard could have settled down to life as a withy weaver, cider maker or llama farmer. But then the fish tank started singing to him – the same song over and over, day after day. It was enough to drive him mad.

?This is the story of Richard’s response to all this – his admission into the mental health service, a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, medication – the high, the lows – and making sense of a lifetime lived over the wall picking apples.

The show is Ashbrittle village hall and tickets priced £10 adults/£5 students are available from [email protected], phone 01823 672131. Members of the audience can take along a bottle of their favourite beverage.