The selection of Scott Walker's Joanna as introductory music for this week's enjoyable and well acted production of Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy showed that students of discerning taste were involved in it, even if the song's timeless elegance hardly set the sixties' mood of the play, writes Christopher Gray.

Still, there was plenty to be heard on the stage of the Old Fire Station to remind us of those long-gone days, including the priceless observation that "ever since the Beatles, the lower classes think they can behave exactly as they please". Class issues, in fact, loom large in this hilarious one-act comedy, about the efforts of a young artist (Justin Brierley) to marry a debby blonde (Lucinda Millward), against the wishes of her crusty military dad (Paul O'Mahony), at the same time settling their financial future through the sale of a work to a millionaire collector (Jean Meiring).

To impress both dad and buyer, Brind has borrowed furniture from an absent neighbour, an ultra fussy gay (Jeff Glekin) who would be furious if he found out, which seems very likely when he suddenly turns up. Fortunately for Brind, the flat is in total darkness though a power cut. (The play's central joke is that dark and light are reversed and we can see perfectly until the lights go on, when we can't.) Comic confusions mount, with Brind's ex-girlfriend (director Sarah Kinsella) and an elderly neighbour with a hitherto undiscovered appetite for booze (Madeline Clements) also involved in the fun.