IT'S billed as a special performance from a guest repertory company - The Welders' Institute Theatrical Society.

But if you take the initials of the name, it adds up to Twits, and the popular Chandler's Ford-based Chameleon Theatre Company will readily own up to being behind the latest offering at The Ritchie Memorial Hall.

Michael Green's Coarse Acting Strikes Back opens tonight with curtain-up at 7.30pm, and runs until Saturday - although the Saturday performance is already a sell-out.

"It's us, really," confirmed the company's business manager Sheila Hardiman who added: "In coarse acting everything has to be done in a clumsy or unrefined way."

The trio of short plays includes Trapped, Pride at Southanger Park and Oedocles, King of Thebes - a Greek tragedy said to put King Lear's troubles in the shade.