Newport Playgoers start the New Year with a bang with their production of the fun-filled French farce "Some of My Best Friends are Husbands".

The play focuses on the womanising philanderer Celimare who has been carrying on a string of affairs with the wives of his best friends.

When he decides to settle down and marry the beautiful 18-year-old Emma, his friends turn up to the wedding - with hilarious results.

Add in saucy servants, secret shenanigans and dumbstruck suitors and you have the perfect recipe for a great night out at the theatre.

Translated by acclaimed Irish dramatist Hugh Leonard from the original by master farçeur Eugene Labiche, this play is full of fun and frolics - with plenty of ooh-la-la.

Play is perfect New Year pick-me-up "Some of My Best Friends are Husbands", which is on from 21 - 26 January at the Dolman Theatre, is the perfect way to banish those post-Christmas blues! There are laughs galore as a French playboy has to use all his wiles to outwit his mistresses' husbands, his in-laws - and his new wife!