Our seasonal appetite to eat, drink and be merry is being amply satisfied at the Mill, with the third ingredient supplied, following a slap-up turkey dinner, by Ray Cooney’s Funny Money. The veteran farceur’s 1994 hit, which ran for two years in the West End, was the festive offering eight years ago at this attractive Oxfordshire dinner theatre. Popular demand has brought it back, under director Ron Aldridge.

Lovers of sophisticated comedy are advised that this is emphatically not material for them. It’s a play in which we hear lines like “Sergeant, may I come upstairs to relieve you?” There is also much mention of a ginger feline which, in Are You Being Served? fashion, is never styled a cat.

The audience around me was clearly loving it, however, with hoots of laughter at the multiple confusions Cooney creates.

Set in real time in a smart Fulham house (design Tony Eden) the action builds from the return of birthday boy accountant Harry Perkins (Harry Gostelow) with a briefcase packed with £1.5m of someone else’s money. There’s been an accidental mix-up with bags, it seems.

Eager to keep the loot but anxious to avoid the crooks to whom it must belong, Harry tells wife Jean (Elizabeth Elvin) that they must flee at once to Spain. She, though, would rather enjoy his birthday dinner with pals Vic and Betty Johnson (Patrick Monckton, above, and Anita Graham).

Adding to the growing chaos comes a policeman (John Arthur, back from the 2003 cast), who has seen Perkins gleefully counting the cash three times in a pub loo and deduced he was there to solicit men, and later another rozzer (Michael Shaw) who wants Jean to identify her dead ‘husband’ found in the Thames, trussed up and shot, with his briefcase.

Punctuating the fun are appearances by a chirpy taxi driver (the Confessions of... star Robin Askwith, above) who is desperate to get his passengers — any passengers — to the airport.

Until January 14. Box office: 0118 969 8000.