Being,I suspect, one of just a handful not to have seen Nora Ephron’s 1989 film (other than ‘that’ ubiquitous, scene, of course) I was lucky enough to sit in the New Theatre audience with absloutely no pre-conceptions.

A Manhattan background framed a stark set layout, but it soon became clear that this very simplicity was in deliberate contrast to the fast-paced wit and confusion of the two title characters.

A simple enough, boy meets girl storyline managed to throw up every possible relationship issue with hilarious and endearing results.

Clearly the play sinks or swims on the cedibility of the banter between Harry and Sally and in the capable hands of Rupert Hill and Sarah Jayne Dunn, it’s a winner.

Fresh, natural and likeable, they are perfect vehicles for Ephron’s quick-fire wit and wry observations that went on to trigger a genre, with 90s television series Friends and Sex in the City hot on the film’s tail.

Support characters, Luke Rutherford (Jack) and Hosha Engler Marie) brought their share of humour and acted as a reference point in the 12 years time passage through the piece.

Light and entertaining - at less than two hours running time it left an appreciative audience wanting more.

The play ends on Saturday.