COMEDY
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Lunch With Quattro Formaggio
Underbelly Cowgate

A licentious lunch date with 4 sizzling sex-loving kinky faux-Italian swingers! I wasn’t sure what to expect from this show, which is semi-set in the backdrop of an Italian restaurant. Semi because the actors narrate the fact that the italian restaurant concept is something they’ve chosen due to their love of pizza, and it was a quirky name that came to mind and they built the performance from that.

Other skits include a sexy version of blind date with questions like ‘how would you attempt to have sexual intercourse with me if you saw me exercising my glutes in the gym’ and what culinary innuendo would you use to have sexual innuendo with me on a date’. There is the expected swingers skits, though in both of these just as the 4-some are getting down and dirty, Andrew returns in pants, red socks and a gas mask and puts the quattro off proceedings.  They gyrate around each other; simulate sex; grope each others’ body parts; feed chocolate cake and squirty cream into each others’ mouths; simulate blow jobs with feather dusters and indulge in a charity cream cracker eating contest.

The skits are so varied that it’s impossible for the actors to become typecast, which also means the audience doesn’t really develop a bond with them. I feel that so much emphasis is placed on having the sketches as overly sexed and shocking as possible (buying babies and removing their legs to make cake mixers) that it comes off as rather unconvincing. Undeniably the actors all totally committed to the roles, especially Andy and the more prominent female.  Perhaps less sketches and tailoring the actors to their specific roles would elevate this a star, as there is definitely a niche for a totally over-sexed performance like this – especially at lunch time!

An enjoyable hour of scintillating comedy – just don’t go with anyone you wouldn’t discuss blow jobs and anal fisting with!