KEEPING it in the family has helped break an amateur production company's records.

Father and daughter, Steve Chisholm and Rachel, 19, play a married couple in an "earthy comedy'' at the Middlesbrough Theatre.

The play, On a Night Like This, written by John Godber, was supposed to run for a week, but it has met with such applause that two extra shows have been organised.

It is the first time the Middlesbrough Little Theatre Company has had to put on extra performances. They will be staged on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 19 and 20.