Is the island of Aars a remote rock off Scotland or, as legend has it, a giant sleeping sea-turtle? Its inhabitants are few: two alarmingly dour puritans who preach about burning at "gas mark 9 in the fires of hell"; Morag McMac, a sweet-natured and credulous young woman who dreams of eating pizza before she dies; and Dave Bladgett, the former bass player of Tungsten Orkid (a Stourbridge sweat-metal band) whose brain cells have been fried by rock'n'roll excess.
Their idyll is threatened when a Dutch health and safety officer and sex pot arrives, determined to enforce EU directives. But she's soon sidetracked by Morag, whom she declares "prettier than all the girls in Holland put on top of each other".
This eccentric rural musical comedy, written by Chris Larner and Mark Stevens, suggests a marriage of the Right Size and lightweight Radio 4 silliness. A nicely daffy mood is maintained by the cast as the jokes ramble between the new, the very old and the unconsciously filthy. The show contains enough ditties, nonsense, and sentiment to justify its 60 minutes, and the romance that blooms between the two women on Aars is unexpectedly touching. If you lie back and let this tickle you, you'll emerge smiling.
