Peter Schaffer wrote the farce Black Comedy for the 1965 Chichester Festival as the light-hearted half of a double bill, the first part being Strindberg's intense drama Miss Julie.

Almost 50 years later the same combination has been revived, but now in the Minerva Theatre, and it is evident how suitable the match is.

Publicity for this revival reminds us that the original leading players were Maggie Smith as the eponymous heroine and Albert Finney as the manservant Jean.

It is asking a lot for the present actors, Rosalie Craig and Shaun Evans, to emulate their predecessors and, truth to tell, they do not as yet do so. Neither succeeds in their reversal of roles in the second half. He gets close without having the required magnetism, but she is not haughty enough to begin with, nor in the least suicidal at the end.

Black Comedy retains its reputation as one of the funniest of all farces. The gag of being able to see how the characters react when the lights go out in a power cut is only the beginning of the fun. There is much more to it than that, as this celebratory production shows.