This was an excellent idea for a night’s entertainment: three spooky one-act plays and the cabaret and a fish and chip supper as a bonus. These evenings are a lot of fun, sitting round tables, sipping your drink while, in this case, the show is laid on by ATG…

The cast of six (in After Midnight, Before Dawn) whipped up the fear and frenzy pretty well under Ashley Dunn’s direction and they looked the part with their ripped rags and blood-smeared faces.

Ali Morris as Calm Woman was effective as the figure in control.

Thursday’s performance did suffer one or two technical glitches and this team carried on admirably when their prison door flew open accidentally.

Cards, Cups & Crystal Ball, directed by Gee Rook, was a Macbeth-inspired period piece in which the three Weerd sisters, Flora, Dora and Nora, each tell the fortune of their mysterious visitor Lady M using their own specialist device. Strongest performances here came from Christine Woodhead as Flora with Ellie Driscoll playing up the laughs with her moaning maid Jessie.

The curtain-raiser was the Ayckbourn (A Cut in the Rates) about a council official who calls on a man to persuade him to pay his rates, and finds it far easier said than done. John Tough made a masterly Ratchett, a retired illusionist, with Wendy Woodhouse as his sawn-in-half accomplice Rosalinda and Diana Petts as the council’s fraught Miss Pickhart with the best line of the night: "What do you expect me to do? I’m from town hall."