Sex and Curry

Sex and Curry promises a hilarious comedy play, with its obvious references to two traditional suggestions of how to start the contractions of an overdue baby. It is in the tradition of Seventies and Eighties British comedies like No Sex please we are British and Not now darling where the comedy relies on characters leaping to assumptions, forced to pretend to be things that they are not, and talking at cross-purposes.

Indeed, that generic description perfectly describes the story of Robert Scott's plot for Sex and Curry. The sex and curry have already been consumed as the play starts leaving Hannah pregnant but without a boyfriend, so she sets up her gay flat mate to act as her fiancée to appease her overbearing mother while her neighbour is asked to masquerade as a Vicar, a Doctor and a Millionaire to further complicate the plot. Like so many of those previous comedies and the TV sitcoms of the same time, it all feels a little “laboured” and “overdue” now and while it has amusing “inter-courses” never quite “delivers” to the hilarious billing.

Riverside Players cast of six make the most of the material creating the characters with a competent ease in an episodic short scene structure that wraps up in under two hours and resolves in an everyone lives happily ever after finish. It is a pleasant gently amusing evening with a charming underlying message about true friendships and sibling rivalry.

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