ACCLAIMED Scottish actors John Shedden and Finlay McLean are set to perform a series of weird and wonderful sketches later this month at Bowhill House Theatre, near Selkirk.

Audiences will meet a variety of hilarious characters from the land of the living - and the dead.

Get a Life! is written by playwright and novelist David Henry Wilson

Judge the judge, be starstruck by the astronomer, eavesdrop on the Prime Minister and the President, and witness two extraordinary interviews as Hamlet and Shylock return to rewrite their stories!You can even throw your undies at Wolf Humperhoven!

Out of this kaleidoscope of theatre, social satire, politics and parody, emerges a startling view of the crazy world we live in!

Finlay McLean has worked extensively in theatre, radio, TV and film.

On television he has appeared in numerous dramas including: Rebus, Taggart, Rab C Nesbitt, Waterloo Road, Lovesick and Burnistoun.

Shetland born, John Shedden's distinguished career in broadcasting and theatre embraces everything from Shakespeare, Chekhov, Pinter, Beckett to solo Fringe First winning plays Every Inch a King.

He created the role of Stan Laurel in Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy which transferred from the Traverse to the Mayfair, London.

Their not altogether crazy look at a crazy world arrives at Bowhill on Thursday, March 21.

Tickets for the show, which starts at 8pm, are £12 and £10 for under 16s.