Buckets is a play which asks the question ‘How do you deal with the fact that time always runs out?’, while exploring the growing fad of bucket lists.

For those who do not know, a bucket list is a list of things to do or achieve before one kicks the, well - bucket.

For Hazel Collinson, her ambition was always to perform at the Orange Tree Theatre and this play has given her that chance, with the perfect storyline as well.

She says: "I got a list together this year of little things I wanted to do before I keel over.

"One was to perform a one-woman play at the Tabard Theatre in Chiswick, where I live, but I also wanted to perform at the Orange Tree."

She adds when she saw the play was titled Buckets, she knew it was as good a time as any to fulfil her dream.

"I got in touch and went in for an audition, where they decided if they wanted us or not and thankfully they picked me and I am going to be in the show," she says.

"I am in the chorus which is split up into two groups of six and I will perform every other night.

"It is one of my local theatres and I cannot wait."

Mrs Collinson has always been from an artistic stock and even appeared in the dining room scene in the Italian Job with Michael Caine in 1969, which her late husband Peter Collinson directed.

Buckets explores the want and the will of those who make bucket lists and unfolds as their lives begin to overlap.

  • Buckets; Orange Tree Theatre, Clarence Street, Richmond; May 28 until June 27, 7.30pm evenings, 2.30pm matinees; tickets £15 to £20; for more information, visit orangetreetheatre.co.uk.