A play that contains plenty of wit but is also full of highly-charged emotion goes on show at Dockyard this weekend.

`Wrong For Each Other', by Canadian playwright Norman Foster, has been chosen as the latest offering by J.B. Productions who have already staged two successful monthly `after dinner' productions (`Shirley Valentine' and a Monty Python revue) at the Club 21.

Helen Coffey, one of Bermuda's top acting talents who is also currently appearing in Noel Coward's `Private Lives' for Jabulani Repertory Company, is joined by a newcomer on Bermuda's theatre circuit, Nick Moore.

"I haven't really done any acting since I was at Ardingly College in the UK,'' he reveals. "So I think I'm very lucky to get this part, with this team, for my first venture back onstage.'' The rest of the team for this two-hander production is director Carol Birch and producer Judy Taylor. "I think it's one of the best-written plays I have come across in a long time,'' says Mrs. Birch, also one of the Island's best-known actresses. "It's very funny, but there's also some pathos. It gets quite intense at times, so you need to bring along the tissues.'' The plot, set in Canada, centres around two former lovers who meet up again in a cafe and get drawn into a discussion, with accompanying flashbacks, of their relationship.

"We have all been in the dating game, so I think it's a play that strikes a pretty universal chord,'' says Ms Coffey. "I've really enjoyed working with Nick.'' "Well, I think it's more satisfying than bungee-jumping,'' reveals Mr. Moore, who actually spent two years in Dockyard doing just that when he ran the `Adrenalin Extreme' with Stuart Kirkpatrick. "But that was great fun, too.'' Before that, he was in the British Army where he served in France, California, Gibraltar and Denmark, as well as two stints in Northern Ireland. Conceding that "Belfast had its moments of drama'', he is now presumably on safer ground as a Major in the Bermuda Regiment, as well as working as a broker with Aon Re (Bermuda) Ltd.

JB Productions, formed by Carol and Ian Birch, also performs in various locations around the Island. "We have been enormously encouraged by the efforts of Wedco and the restaurants involved in our dinner/entertainment packages. People can come out here and really make a night of it in the West End!'' Restaurants involved in the package are the Frog & Onion, Beethoven's and Pirate's Landing.

`Wrong For Each Other' will be presented at Club 21 this Friday and Saturday, June 19 and 20 at 9 p.m. sharp. Dinner/show packages available at the above-mentioned venues cost $49, with admission at $20 for the show only.

Reservations, which are advised, may be made by telephoning the Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard, 234-2809.