The Gherkin Fantasies Ciao Roma 16 August

I went to see this (free) show for the advertised Hull connection (local to me). The sort-of story followed two Hull hamburger sellers entering the City's fun fried food competition. Two pretty skilled and confident performers alternate on stage with pre-recorded video snippets centred around dating vegetables. It is a sketch comedy with little narrative to drive. Light, amusing and not containing an accent that comes from anywhere near Hull, it was done well enough but strong sex references and swearing would preclude family audiences. Did not feel it would be worth following up - probably a Fringe one-off - although the two women had good comedy timing and talent and I would not be surprised if they pop up on a radio or TV sketch show in a few years time. Charlie, Artery.