This summer, the Torch Theatre’s Youth Theatre sizzling summer show is a comedy, The Bangers and Chips Explosion, and your help is needed to find the Best Dinner Lady (or lunchtime supervisor) in Pembrokeshire.

The show is based on the popular children’s novel by Brough Girling that includes a horrid dinner lady who won’t serve chips at St Gertrude’s Primary School! As a result, the school children go on strike – with dangerous and hilarious results.

But the members of Milford Haven’s Torch Youth Theatre know that most dinner ladies are not like the one in their play, and they need the help of Pembrokeshire school children and staff to find the best, most adored dinner lady who has ever paced the school canteen floor. And one lucky dinner lady (or man) will be crowned the Best Dinner Lady in Pembrokeshire.

To nominate your favourite dinner lady or lunchtime supervisor in Pembrokeshire, all you have to do is take a photo of them hard at work and include three reasons why you think yours is better than the rest – it’s as easy as that!

Once all the nominations have been received, the Torch Theatre panel will decide who is the worthy winner and who will be crowned the Best Dinner Lady in Pembrokeshire. She/he will be presented with a sausage hamper from Gate 2 Plate in Freystrop near Haverfordwest as well as two tickets to see the show.

Tim Howe, Senior Manager Youth and Community at the Torch, said: “This is a fun competition that we hope all schools in Pembrokeshire will get involved in!”

He continued: “I am sure we all remember our dinner ladies at school. These unsung heroes of lunchtime have always gone that extra mile, looking after us in the school hall or out in the playground. If we were extra lucky, we might have had extra lashings of chips and seconds when it came to jam roly-poly or chocolate cake and custard. We want to celebrate all these amazing people who have such a big impact on young people’s lives across our county!”

Email your nomination, your three reasons as to why you are nominating this dinner lady, along with the photo, your contact details and the dinner lady’s contact details to [email protected] with the subject line “The Best Dinner Lady Competition” before Monday, July 7. All nominations will be treated fairly and the winner will be declared the following week.

You can join Lisa and her Café Torch team for the perfect appetiser for any live show or broadcast entertainment with monthly menus prior to any evening live shows or broadcasts, and daytime menus for matinee performances. The Torch Theatre is proud to say that this team is nothing like the lunchtime cooks in The Bangers and Chips Explosion.

Torch Youth Theatre members present The Bangers and Chips Explosion from Monday, July 21 to Wednesday, July 23 at 6.30pm. To book tickets, visit torchtheatre.co.uk or call 01646 695267.