Shout! Theatre Royal, Bath

According to Timothy Leary, if you remember the Sixties you weren't really there.

Happily, the audience this week were there in force to prove him wrong, prepared to wallow contentedly in the luxury of tuneful nostalgia.

The storyline, it has to be said, is not the strongest in the world – little more than a series of snapshots of Sixties' life to which appropriate songs from the era can be attached.

What makes it so special, however, is that the vast majority of the songs were performed by some of the top British girl singers of the time – Lulu, Petula Clark, Cilla Black and Dusty Springfield.

This was girl power, albeit a rather tame version as the regular appearances of the token man make clear. Girls might feel they had the world at their fingertips but they were still intent on finding a mate and then cooking his tea for him for ever after.

With Su Pollard in the cast, you know it's going to be an upbeat evening and it is.

She and her fellow performers – notably Claire Sweeney, Donna Steele and Shona White – belt out many of the numbers that helped to make the Sixties so memorable and prove without doubt that, as a decade, it was pretty unbeatable in terms of music.

The audience certainly thought so. We were standing singing along with the small but energetic cast, by the finale and revelling in every minute.

Performances continue until Saturday. For tickets, call the box office on 01225 448844.

Judy Boyd