IF you missed Pravesh Kumar's hit play a decade ago, then the ten-year wait for its return has been worthwhile.

Writer-director Kumar has revisited the splendidly named The Deranged Marriage to provide a fresh look at Asian wedding tradition with a British twist – a kind of Bollywood movie comes to Slough – while retaining such elements as the entire audience being wedding guests who play their part in the manic exuberance, tears, confessions, late dramas and chaos of the big day. One audience member ends up playing the Mayor; another steps in for an all important family ceremony; everyone squeezes up for a photo.

Kumar's revamped comedy drama follows nervous couple Sona (Clara Indrani) and Rishi (Aaron Virdee) and their families during their extravagant preparations for the arranged marriage that neither wants but the older generation do. Wedding cameraman Tony (Stephen Lloyd) will have a key part to play (without giving away the plot line).

Underpinning the kind of sitcom humour to be found in Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars At No 42 is a more serious consideration of the changing relationship between tradition and conformity, as the convention of arranged marriages rubs against modern life for young British Asian adults. Or, in the case of Ali Zaidi's Chaman, giving up his medicine studies to be a DJ and defying his parents by wanting to marry Jenny (Jessica Dennis), Sona's white best friend.

Kumar has updated the cultural references (such as a UKIP neighbour); Libby Watson's new design echoes both Romeo and Juliet's balcony and Bollywood movie stairways; and Andy Kumar's choreography and Indian costumes are equally colourful.

Like marriage, The Deranged Marriage isn't perfect; some acting is not top notch; the dialogue has clunky moments; the direction could be tightened, but the audience, half Asian, half white, have a collective energy so rarely experienced in a theatre. An energy matched in particular by the humorous vigour of Balvinder Sopal's imperious Lata and the scene-stealing Sheena Patel's perennial spare part.

Deranged? You'd be mad to miss it.

The Deranged Marriage, Rifco/Watford Palace Theatre, at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, until Sunday; 7.30pm nightly plus 2pm, Saturday and 3pm, Sunday. Box office: 0113 213 7700 or at wyp.org.uk