Pizza, Fries, Ghosts and Lies Review - The Spalding Guardian

I like medium steaks or ladies, but not the spiritual side of the word, so I was a bit skeptical of SADOS' latest production Pizzas, Fries, Ghosts and Lies.

But dirty, clever and funny in equal amounts, the farce delivered, if you will, on many levels.

Written by SADOS member Brett Moore the play starts with Simon (Zack Colam) and Sarah Damon (Joanne Carling) watching Ghost on the couch and soon develops into an idea for a full-blown spiritual evening with friends James and Gemma Yates (Jonathan Tibbs and Emma Dobbs).

Unbeknown to them four ghosts have been heralded to take part in the fun – played by Ben White, Gemma Page, Rosemary Mason and Mark Yates - who have a direct link to those on the other side.

Eventually the four couples meet under forced circumstances and are faced with an unusual dilemma about how to put everything back to how it was.

As usual Nigel Hancocks playing the flamboyantly-named Norman Nigel Nobbs provides the slapstick element with his Prestos Perfect Pizzas and an accompanying free drink that probably isn't to many people's taste.

But he, and gypsy ghost Beverly Moore, eventually turns out to have a more important role.

It's rare that I comment on wardrobes but one of the cleverest parts of the play was the swapover at half time, from alive clothes to dead clothes.

Of course I can usually create the same bleached out effect accidentally when I wash my poor quality clothes, but not in such a short period of time.

The accents of the actors also worked very well in this play, from Emma Dobbs' Jonathon Ross-esque medium to the strong comedy Midlands patter and cackling of Mark Yates.

The too-small audience were in stitches at times throughout Brett's cheeky but innocent rumpy-pumpy and ghoulies-laden script, which is actually quite scary at the start.