‘PEOPLE say it’s like watching a play in their living rooms,” said Pauline Daniels on a previous visit to the Actors’ Studio.

She opened a regular-sized door in the wall and there it was – a tiny theatre with a proper stage and lighting rig, and 80 seats in maroon velvet.

This time, the comedian’s protegés, Emma Lisi and David Moss, are rehearsing Jim Cartright’s Two – a show that involves each of them taking on seven roles.

“It was hard at first to put the different tones in your voice for each character but we’ve got there,” says 24-year-old Lisi, dressed as Maude in a pink ruffly top and red shoes.

“And, once you put on the costumes, it’s like you become them.”

Set in a pub, Two is made up of a series of conversations between different regulars.

Maude is torn between dumping her aptly-named boyfriend, Moth, who is like one to a flame where other women are concerned, and persuading him to marry her.

“Don’t keep turning me over with your tongue,” she tells him indignantly, before finding herself impressed he remembered the umbrella in her drink – the one that she paid for.

Then there’s Mrs Iger (“she’s obsessed with big men and her husband is a little flea, so it’s funny to see them together”), Nana (“she wears a cardie, looks after her husband and loves going to the butchers”) and Alice and Fred (“they are a few sandwiches short of a picnic” – interjects Moss).

Lisi’s favourite character to play is the landlady of the pub where the action is set.