Tickets for the Sgt's Mess pantomime Dad's Barmy, will go on sale on Monday.

The show - always a sell out since its revival five years ago - will be staged at Deal's The Astor Theatre in January.

Written and directed by former Royal Marine Brian Short, it is packed with adult humour with local gags aplenty just like its predecessors when the Royal Marine School of Music was based at Deal.

This year's theme, Dad's Barmy, is a play on the popular 1968 TV show, coloured by favourite characters from the Home Guard, Captain Mainwaring, Sgt Wilson, Lnc Cpl Jones, Pt Pike and Frazer.

Profits go to about 35 good causes each year, including the Royal Marines Benevolent Fund, the Deal Memorial Bandstand Trust, youth organisations and other charities.

It will be staged nightly from Tuesday, January 3, until Saturday, January 14.

Tickets go on sale at the Theatre's box office from 9am on Monday and, like in previous years, long queues are expected.

For more information on The Astor Theatre, click here.