John B Keane's comedy about how the parish priest's housekeeper runs the parish and terrorises the curates has not weathered well over the 28 years since it was written, but it provides the annual stage romp this year for a clutch of faces familiar to many from the various television soap operas and comedy series and should prove familiarly popular.

When Canon Pratt and his two curates, Father Brest and Father Loran, lose their esteemed Ms Bottomly they must recruit a replacement to carry on with the cooking and cleaning. They eschew Ms Andover on reasonable suspicion of alcoholism revealed in Father Brest's obviously cunning word-association test during the interview, so she goes on to find and marry the decrepit Ulick in order to qualify for the widow's pension.

They select Ms Maureen Kettle - aka Moll - and soon the parish finances are rocketing, the church is reroofed, a new school is being built and bingo has become a regular weekly event. And then comes the question of Moll's pension, and so it goes.

It is all harmless and predictable fun but is given a mysteriously slow production under the direction of Michael Caven so that every small joke is signalled in plenty of time to work it out before it passes on.

Frank Kelly's Canon Pratt is rustically straightforward, Mark O'Regan's Father Brest predictably paranoid and Tony Tormey's Father Loran amiably pusillanimous.

Maria McDermottroe is a sturdy Moll but occasionally very uncertain in accent when speaking the author's dialogue in dialect. Derry Power lacks some of the episcopal gravitas that might have been expected, but then so do some bishops in real life. And Maureen Toal and Robert Carrickford provide two brief comic cameos as the unsuccessful candidate and her dim and creaky inamorata.

Tony Lyons has provided a comfortably familiar setting, and Gail Wroth a competent lighting design which, like the play, leaves nobody in the dark.

Running for five weeks. Booking (01) 677 1717.