Lick and Chew are a boy/girl duo taking you through a whirlwind series of sketches held together nicely by an underlying travel theme.
Opening with a riff on the over-the-top descriptive language and destinations in travel mags (think Costa Rican cloud forest spa hotels), the pair begin a series of rapidly-changing sketches and songs. They return as the travel writers who have come up with this over-the-top prose, and were taken on a journey with their pleasantly posh characters who are shocked to find that their magazine has assigned them to cover a package holiday destination, leaving them to fly Ryanair instead of their usual Club Class.
Constantly switching between characters that reappear and develop throughout the show, Lick and Chew do a brilliant job in entertaining us, let alone just remembering who they are supposed to be at any one time.
It all good knockabout stuff, and theres nothing too rude in here, but given the shows timing you may wish to think about leaving the kids behind as one of the sketches features a song about gold-diggers (of both sexes) called Suck a Rich Mans Cock, and I could see the parents of the eight year old in front of me looking a bit sheepish.
Lick and Chew draw you into their world for an hour with their well-acted character-based sketches and the grand finale is a joy as they bring back all the characters portrayed over the last hour for a final word in song. This may well be the only show on the Fringe to feature a pair of sky-diving OAPs go fly with Lick and Chew.