The theatre is full of superstitions, so Nub News took a look back to the performance on Friday 13 November 1987.

Cowbridge Amateur Dramatic Society performed Frank Vickery's 'One O'Clock From the House' on Thursday 12, Friday 13 and Saturday 14 November in 1987.

The comedy of personalities and situations revolves around the funeral of an elderly father. The family includes a cook who bakes almond-less almond cakes, a man who is convinced his shopping trolley is a dog he has already taught to beg and a sister who is a happy inmate at a psychiatric home.

There's one big posthumous joke from the father on his daughters throughout the play. They're not a close-knit family, they even bring the wrong person from the psychiatric home.

That role of mistaken identity was played by Peggy Foster, who is CADS' longest serving member. She joined in 1981, and jovially said it was "terrifying" that the production was 33 years ago.

"We still performed our plays in the town hall back then, it was before we had our own theatre," said Peggy.

"It was set along the Valleys, which is absolutely wonderful, so long as the cast are Welsh.

"The problem is that most of the cast weren't. Living in Wales, when you watch a film where someone is supposed to be Welsh and they clearly aren't, it can be excruciating.

"My Welsh accent came out slightly west of Wolverhampton, sadly. But we got around it by saying I was 'from somewhere else' because I had been in a mental home.

"My character was so bananas, that she just went along with the situation, even though she wasn't the real sister.

"I saw the subtext of it as being about the neglect of somebody who is mentally ill.

"Saying that, it's a very, very funny play. Half the characters in it are batty – I remember Malcolm playing a man who thought a shopping trolley was a dog" she said.

Peggy, who celebrated her 80th birthday on Tuesday, was 47 when she performed the role of Mavis (or rather, Mavis' imposter). Peggy's daughter, Penny, helped backstage by doing the make-up. She was 22 at the time.

Eventually she began directing, and for the last four years Peggy has directed CADS' November productions. This time last year, they performed 'Season's Greetings', which she directed.

Margaret Bourke also acted in the play, in the role of Miriam. She recalled learning her lines in Singapore, while her husband was stationed out there, and one cast member having to drop out at the last minute.

"We always used to move into the town hall on Saturday morning which caused problems on a Sunday because we couldn't put the banner up until after the Remembrance Day service was finished," said Margaret.

"As we moved in on the Saturday, David complained about not being able to see properly, and on Sunday he was rushed into hospital.

"That left a huge gap, and Glenys, our director, was rushing around like a lunatic. She phoned Frank Vickery to ask if he could help, and he said he couldn't but that he'd like to come and see it.

"So, Glenys jiggled the cast around, and Michael learnt the role in 24 hours. He is a lawyer, which helped. He did a terrific job but you can imagine the total panic we had, wondering if we'd have to cancel or someone would go on with a book," she said.

Despite the backstage drama, the show went on and Margaret said the whole production was "tremendous fun".

"It was a wonderful play to do, it was so funny, full of misconceptions and misinterpretations. There was a line 'Carnation – do you mean milk or flower?!'," she said.

"The cast was terrific. Gill Williams played the pregnant character, who goes into labour towards the end of the play. It was a tremendous group bunch of people.

"On the Saturday night, true to his promise, Frank Vickery and his mates came to watch us."

According to Margaret, promoting the play in Cowbridge also caused some commotion.

"False teeth featured fairly prominently in the play," she said.

"In those days we used the window of the Principality Building Society to promote the shows, and I in that one we had a coffin trestle and a purple cloth, and I persuaded one of the dentists in town to give me a pair of false teeth.

"I was asked very politely asked by the manager of Principality to remove the teeth because they were causing 'unfortunate comments'."

Now aged 78, Margaret is still involved with CADS and last acted in a show three years ago.

Miriam – Margaret Bourke

Austin – Gwilym Punter

Margaret – Beti Punter

Rupert – Alex Watkins

Avril – Marge Smith

Desmond – Michael Morgan

Warden – Joyce Thomas

Stage manager – Eric Davies

Lighting – Peter Beymon

Properties – Margaret Saunders and Moyra Beeson

House manager – Audrey Brown

Ser designer – Luke Millar and Dave Mainspring