GRAHAM Greene’s classic adventure story Travels With My Aunt opens for a three-night run at the Lighthouse in Poole today.

Marking the 25th anniversary of the author’s death, the adaptation by vibrant and innovative theatre company Creative Cow offers a hilarious and mad cap dash around the world. We talk to actor Katherine Senior, a founder member of the company and who also grew up in Bournemouth.

“The play takes its audience on a whirlwind tour across the world and it plots one very ordinary man’s extraordinary journey of self-discovery – and change.

“Henry Pulling is a retired, risk-averse and rather dull bank manager. His journey from a man effectively retired from life and the world to active participant in the swinging 60s and the vast changes those years brought is begun the moment his Aunt Augusta turns up at her sister’s funeral. From then on his travels begin and his eyes are opened to a whole new – and dangerous – world.,” says Katherine.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Graham Greene’s death. Greene wrote Travels with My Aunt when he was 65 and one of its themes is that, while you cannot avoid old age and death, you can choose to live life to the full.

“We love Greene’s thirst for adventure and risk – everything that, in the beginning, Henry Pulling is not. Greene described Travels... as ‘the only book I have ever written for the fun of it’ and we like the way this work is a kind of parody of his more serious books. We chose this play because of its timeless appeal – we know it’s going to delight audiences all over the country.”

n For more information and tickets please contact Lighthouse, Poole on 01202 280000.