Someone Else's Husband, Lighthouse, Poole

THIS new play written, directed and performed by Poole talent Sasha Paul, packed a powerful punch.

Someone Else's Husband may only have lasted an hour but the tension was ratcheted up minute by minute.

It was a scary tale of a woman obsessed and there can be few sights more unsettling than the passion of the actress in full flow.

Her one-act play started life as a one-woman show in London and she adapted it into a three-hander with Wendy Ebsworth from Poole making her acting debut and deaf actor Matthew Kirby.

Not without laughs, it's the tale of a stalker obsessed to the point of derangement with the married man who moves in opposite.

In an added dramatic element the male actor is deaf and the dialogue signed in British Sign Language by Emma Saunders, with a voice-over for the hearing audience.

It was only on for two nights in the intimate setting of The Studio theatre but judging by the reaction, it deserves more theatre time.