“Beat the doom and gloom of modern British society. Come and spend two hours with me and you’ll forget all about it,” says Mark about the play.

Playing several Hampshire dates next month, the two-hour show affectionately points out the basic cultural differences between men and women.

Defending The Caveman started life as a solo show written by American Rob Becker, who also performed in it. Since its premiere in San Francisco in 1991, it has since become the longest-running solo play in Broadway history and been translated into 16 languages.

Little, 49, first started in the show in 1999 and this year marks his tenth anniversary.

It has been widely praised and back in 2000, it won an Olivier Award as Best Entertainment.

“We’ve revamped the show and it’s all new and improved. There are fewer Americanisms and it’s a far better play for the British audience.”

Mark added: “I’ve been able to take out all the Oprah Winfrey therapy stuff. Audiences don’t want therapy, they just want to be entertained.”

Perhaps best known for his role of Joe Mangel in the long-running TV soap Neighbours, Mark Little believes that both sexes can be enlightened by the theatre production.

“Cavemen and cavewomen used to work together in order to survive, but we seem to have lost that. What with metro-sexuality and so on, the modern man doesn’t know whether he’s Arthur or Martha.”

Mark believes the show is aimed at everyone and not simply a defence of caveman-like behaviour. He stresses that the real message is that men and women are equal – but different.

“What the audience will find is that the show has a bit of heart to it. Couples usually finish the night cuddling and canoodling. There’s a lot of love in the room by the end.”

Defending The Caveman is at the Kings Theatre, Southsea, June 1-3, tel: 023 9282 8282. Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke, June 24-25, tel: 01256 844244 or visit anvilarts.org.uk.