DANUSIA Iwaszko's 40-minute promenade play first turned the spotlight on a forgotten daughter of York in 2010. Now the traumatic story of the troubled Anne Fairfax is being re-told by a new crop of York Theatre Royal Youth Theatre talent once more in the very rooms where she lived at Fairfax House in Castlegate.

It is an upstairs, downstairs and sometimes on the stairs story that captures the business and the busy-ness of Georgian town-house life, so busy in fact that each audience of 15 is outnumbered by the cast of 19 in performances on the hour, sometimes four a night from 6pm, other nights three a night from 7pm.

Iwaszko's vignettes are guided briskly but never brusquely between kitchen, stairwell and sitting room by Dominic Sorrell's unflappable butler, Rick, and Esther Nixon's more harassed housekeeper, Mrs Pyatt.

The year is 1772, or thereabouts, and the pained voice of the restless, highly religious Anne Fairfax (Imogen Harter-Jones) informs you all is not well for the lady of the crowded house, despite the trimmings/trappings of extravagant wealth.

Is she in the grip of grief or madness, burdened by the loss of all her siblings and two aborted engagements? Incident by incident, room by room, visitor by visitor, her story emerges in this snapshot of Georgian life, its etiquette and class divisions.

All life is here, from gossiping kitchen maids to a nun, ladies of the night to la-di-da Ladies, in a guided tour, history lesson and short play that is playful, intriguing, informative and revealing.

In My Father's House, York Theatre Royal Youth Theatre, Fairfax House, York, until Sunday. Box office: 01904 623568