BEING Hallowe’en, Winchester was awash with ghoulish figures, en-route to pubs and parties.

Writer Nick Edgeworth’s programme notes promised ghost stories that would “leave us with something” and it certainly did: Puzzlement.

Opening with a bedtime nightmare, a medium then attended a murder scene to try to identify the chain of events.

Here, Wesley Buckeridge featured, chairing a bogus attempt to contact the dead daughter of the grieving family, with the deceased looking on disdainfully.

The action moved to a recruitment agency where Edgeworth and Josh Pellegrini’s double-act was the highlight of the evening, the twist being that their employer was the devil himself.

The final scene saw the break-up of the relationship between Tom (Thomas Bijok) and Liz (Liz Donnelly). The set, lighting, music and choreography added atmosphere but the promised thread appeared to be lost on the sparse audience, judging by comments overheard as the performance ended, rather inconclusively.

Alan Johns