AMY Rosenthal kicks off this season's A Play, A Pie & A Pint season at the West Yorkshire Playhouse with her new commission, Polar Bears.

Amy, daughter of Hull actress Maureen Lipman and playwright Jack Rosenthal, is making her Playhouse debut with a warm and witty 50-minute piece about a relationship on the brink of change.

This exploration of young love and the challenges of the road ahead has been written for Verity Kirk and David Leopold, who were last seen at the Leeds theatre in Arthur Miller's The Crucible last October.

The setting is a frosty woodland clearing on the outskirts of Leeds, where a games enthusiast and his girlfriend cling fast to the rules of their fantasy world as their real one slowly unravels.

Amy's past theatre works in London include The Tailor Made Man for the Arts Theatre; Beware Of Young Girls: The Dory Previn Story, co-written with Kate Dimbleby, at the Matcham Room, Leicester Square Hippodrome; The Man Who Came To Brunch, for the Bush Theatre; Liberation, at the Tricycle Theatre and Jitterbug Blizt for the Lyric, Hammersmith.

She adapted her father's Bar Mitzvah Boy and his television play Tortoise for BBC Radio 4, along with a four-part adaptation of his autobiography, Jack Rosenthal's Last Act.

Polar Bears is directed by Caitlin McLeod, who was trainee director at the Royal Court Theatre from 2011 to 2012.

Polar Bears can be seen at 7pm nightly until Saturday and the £12.50 price includes a pie and a pint from 6pm.

This season's A Play, A Pie & A Pint commissions will continue with an as yet unnamed new short play by the Tony Award-winning Eve Ensler, the New York City playwright, performer, feminist, and human rights activist best known for The Vagina Monologues. Directed by Playhouse associate director Mark Rosenblatt, it will run from May 26 to 30.

Rosenblatt also will direct a vibrant new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya by Samuel Adamson in the Quarry Theatre from February 28 to March 21 with a set design by Dick Bird.

"Tea's cold, lunch is late and the great Professor has turned out to be a total fraud," says Adamson. "For Uncle Vanya, life has gone wonky, it's gone to hell. Only one thing can save him: a glamorous woman's love. But she's not interested either. And what's worse, she's married to the Professor.

"Uncle Vanya is a dark, funny and romantic exploration of cross-purposed love, bitter jealousy and a totally dysfunctional family stuck deep in rural Russia."

Playhouse tickets are on sale on 0113 213 7700 or at wyp.org.uk