Harking back to a time when men were men and women were called Susan, the Penny Dreadfuls' tribute to the eccentricities of the Victorian age was a veritable feast of giggles by gaslight.

Following on from their sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival and fresh from recording a new Radio 4 comedy show, this band of four university chums and the unseen eponymous bounder skitted between scenes of intrigue, mystery and hilarity, all planted firmly in a quintessentially 19th-century setting.

Like Edward Gorey telling a Ripping Yarn in the town of Royston Vasey, their caricatureish sketches found an asylum-bound young woman treated with the very latest advances in psychological practices (namely being told to "Buck up") and a team of vampire hunters espousing the best ways to tell the difference between a vampire and a not-a-vampire ("Wear badges").

It can be notoriously tough to keep up the comedic tempo with sketch shows but such was the slick delivery of the Penny Dreadfuls, we segued from a brilliant GK Chesterton-inspired spy conflagration to a Magic Circle wizard duel with seemingly effortless skill.

Deliciously silly and brilliantly inventive - a Prisoner-style job interview involving a spotlight and some imaginary biscuits was the undoubted highlight - it cribbed mercilessly from Arthur Conan Doyle to HG Wells and everyone in between and took advantage of the troupe's impressive acting skills, culminating in a show that deserves to gain a wider audience.