BRIDESHEAD Revisited revisits York for the second part of its run at the Theatre Royal from tonight until Saturday.

So if you missed this defiantly modern take on the Evelyn Waugh classic when it reopened the theatre after its long closure in April, now's your chance.

Artistic director Damien Cruden's version of Brideshead - in what is a co-production with English Touring Theatre that was scripted by playwright Bryony Lavery - boasted 'colour-blind casting', a woman (Shuna Snow) playing no fewer than three men (including stuffed shirt Bridey Flyte) and minimalist sets.

"The overall effect of this minimalism is to increase the sense of impermanence, a wealthy but weary family crashing against the rocks of a troubling faith," wrote Press theatre critic Charles Hutchinson of the show when it first opened in York in April.

At its heart, however, the play remains true to Waugh's original. It is 1943, and Charles Ryder confronts memories of his first youthful encounter with Brideshead Castle and its assortment of eccentric inhabitants.

As the blurb to the play puts it, "the past and the present blur as Charles recalls those heady days at Brideshead and Lord and Lady Marchmain, along with their offspring Julia, Cordelia, Bridey and Sebastian Flyte re-emerge..."

There could scarcely have been a better choice of play with which to re-open the Theatre Royal after its £6 million revamp.

So if you did miss out, now's your chance to catch up...

Brideshead Revisited runs at York Theatre Royal, tonight to Saturday, at 7.30pm with 2.30pm matinees on Thursday and Saturday. Tickets cost £10 to £29 with a £1.50 booking fee, from the box office, on 01904 623568 or at yorktheatreroyal.co.uk