A Ukrainian handyman has lived with an English family for more than 50 years and enjoys an idyllic life with his employers.

Then the police begin an investigation into whether he was involved in atrocities in Eastern Europe during the Second World War.

The result is a play that strips away the complacency of its characters and asks difficult questions about evil, guilt, responsibility and denial.

Bingley Little Theatre presents Ronald Harwood 's drama, The Handyman, at the town's Arts Centre on May 10-15.

Director Harvey Grossman says that although the play raises serious and uncomfortable issues, it also has humour and human interest.

The cast includes Julian Freeman and David Poole, known to audiences at Keighley Playhouse, as well as Jonathan Scott and Liz Hall.

Book at Keighley Information Centre in the town hall or phone 01274 432000.

n The Indiana Wesleyan University Chorale is returning to Haworth Parish Church to perform a concert on May 13.

The American choir has performed in Edinburgh, Oxford, York and St Paul's in London during previous UK visits.

The choir, from Marion, Indiana, undergoes a strenuous and rigorous rehearsal schedule for its tours.

The result will be a "precision of sound seldom rivalled" in St Michael and All Saints Church, Haworth.

The concert begins at 7.30pm and a retiring collection will be taken.

n A shatteringly intense dissection of British mismanagement is promised at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds from Wednesday to Saturday.

The Permanent Way mixes facts with the "funny, tragic and compelling" voices of real people to tell the story of Britain's modern railway system.

The actors each play several parts as civil servants, maintenance men, bankers, police, injured passengers and bereaved relatives tell their sides of the story.

Book at Keighley Information Centre or phone 0113 213 7700.

n Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts runs from May 8-15 at various venues around the Ilkley area featuring concerts and competitive classes in speech, drama, singing, poetry, big bands, instruments, choirs, songwriting and being a pop star. Audiences and helpers are wanted. Phone 01943 872067.

n The Halle Orchestra return to St George's Hall, Bradford, to perform Dvorak's New World Symphony, Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty and Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer, tomorrow at 7.30pm. Book tickets at Keighley Information Centre in the town hall, or phone on 01274 432000.

n Virtuoso violinist Marat Bisengaliev performs with his orchestra at Settle High School on Sunday at 7.30pm. Phone 01756 792642.

n Glusburn-based theatre group Arcadia Players will perform Countryside Defiance, a short slapstick comedy, as part of Skipton Waterways Festival. They will portray the story of three city dwellers stranded in a strange rural market town on Sunday at 12.30pm and 2.30pm, on Monday at 2.30pm, in the Canal Basin, off Coach Street.

"They are forced to contend with an irate pub landlady, a bogus Italian waiter with a ridiculous accent and some truly toe-curling puns," says writer Alex Waddington.