Landlady Kath may have had "an upbringing a nun would envy" - as she tells her prospective tenant Mr Sloane - but after that she developed very different habits.

One of them is seducing her lodgers - especially when they are as markedly handsome as the blond teenager Sloane, whom she has met in the local library and says she wants to help.

Despite the misgivings of her old dad - who suspects the boy is a murderer - he takes up residence and is soon involved in an affair with Kath.

This does not go down well with her gangsterish younger brother Ed, a repressed homosexual who fancies the athletic youngster himself. We are heading for an eternal triangle rather different from most...

Entertaining Mr Sloane dates from 1964 - a period reflected well in Anna Johnson's set design - and was writer Joe Orton's first success in a career that was shockingly cut short. He was hacked to death in 1967 by his gay lover.

The play's sudden switches from absurdity to menace are well handled in this enjoyable production by the student group False Teeth, under co-directors Sophie Duncan and Titas Halder.

All four of the parts are skilfully presented. As Sloane, Alex Ball possesses the good looks necessary to be convincing in the role, and successfully suggests the cool cunning with which the character exploits them to his own advantage.

Jessica Hammett gives us a Kath no less adept at getting her own way, whether by coquettish cajoling, fury or threatening floods of tears. Tom Wilkinson's Ed is perhaps the funniest creation of the night. His gloating enthusiasm during his first interview with the muscular Sloane - in which are teasingly described the boy's sporting and other achievements - is a real hoot.

Will Blair has the difficult task of aging 50 years to present the shuffling old dad, but does it very well. It runs until March 10.