LEGENDARY Hollywood actors Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman are appearing in Behind the Wall next month with their Tryst Theatre chums...

…which is quite a surprise as they have both been dead for over forty years!

Admittedly a room above a Falkirk bar/restaurant is a bit of a come-down for the two giants of classic Hollywood cinema who were more used to accepting Academy Awards and Golden Globes in plush theatres.

But Bogart and Bergman have promised to give five-star performances as they step out in Tryst’s latest “Play and a Pizza” show.

“Casablanca – the Gin Joint Cut” by Scottish writer Morag Fullarton is a comedy homage to one of the classic films of all time.

The romantic drama “Casablanca”, from 1941, starred Bogart as Rick Blaine and Bergman as Ilsa Lund and has some of the most iconic scenes and best lines ever written.

Now Tryst are transforming Upstairs at Behind the Wall into Rick’s Bar, a tiny nightclub and gambling den in Morocco during the Second World War.

The cast of three – Jim Allan, Rhona McColl and Brian Paterson – play all the characters and re-enact the entire film in just an hour…and it’s an absolute joy.

Brian Paterson is cynical Bogart while Rhona McColl is bewitching Bergman.

Director Jim Allan said: “The play is fabulous fun from beginning to end and does three things superbly well. It salutes the golden age of Hollywood, lovingly sends the film up and is also a tip of the hat to its romantic anti-fascist spirit.

“The highpoint will undoubtedly be the film’s most famous scene – everyone in the audience singing the Marseillaise at the top of their voices so that just for a moment Behind the Wall will resemble a seedy bar in Casablanca in 1941. It will be a brilliant laugh.”

Tryst’s “Casablanca – the Gin Joint Cut” will run in Behind the Wall from August 1-5.

Tickets - for which you get a pizza, a drink and the play - are priced £12 and are available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/trysttheatre.

Two pictures show Brian Paterson as the white dinner-suited Bogart and Rhona McColl as the beguiling Bergman.