CAN you get blood from a louse? It's probably not a question that has troubled the world's greatest thinkers - or even its biggest dunces - down the centuries.

But, whether you like it or not, that is one of the questions which will be up for discussion in an evening of no-holds-barred bizarreness at The Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham, next week.

The title of this strange entertainment is Yes, Yes, Yes and it is being brought to you by the aptly-titled Ridiculusmus.

But, before you turn the page in disgust or confusion, consider the clutch of awards this obscure, but clearly very talented group, has picked up in recent times.

Jon Hough and David Woods, who both direct and perform in the show, won a Total Theatre Award for best British production and a Herald Angel Award for innovation and excellence for Yes, Yes, Yes. They also won a nomination for the Granada Media Writing Award.

Billed as "a play about the chaos of life, and our feeble and futile attempts to overcome it", Yes, Yes, Yes features Hough and Woods as Mr H - "an excitable bundle of confused identity" - and his friend Mr Chatterjee, attempting to explain the meaning of life.

Incorporating everything from mustard powder and a stuffed kangaroo, to a giant ice cube, this is a decidedly left-field theatrical offering - and an inspired one, according to the critics.

The show has been hailed as truly, madly, monumentally silly

Yes, Yes, Yes is at The Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham, on November 9, and Portsmouth Arts Centre, on November 11.