REVIEW: The Dating Game
Reading Time: 3 minutesRuby (Nesba Crenshaw) and Roger (Alan Booty) are on their first date on a park bench overlooking Lewisham after matching on an online dating site. The play follows the couple on a series of dates.
Flora Hemmingway
Reviewer for A Young-ish Perspective
REVIEW: Who Do They Think They Are?
Reading Time: 3 minutesA delightful and fun exploration of sisterhood, reckoning with the past and women’s lives during and beyond motherhood, marriage, grief and menopause. This wholesome piece of theatre is full of 90’s and 00’s nostalgic music, fun physical comedy and witty relatable one liners.
REVIEW: Entertaining Murder
Reading Time: 2 minutesBased on the Ilford Murder of 1922, Entertaining Murder tells the story of Edith Thompson’s affair with Freddy Bywaters and their trial for the murder of her husband, Percy.
REVIEW: LIBERACE & LIZA – A Tribute
Reading Time: 2 minutesEver wondered what your favourite karaoke classic from the noughties, or latest radio hit would sound like performed as classic show tunes? Or what show-biz icons Liza Minelli and Liberace would sound like in their own vivacious cabaret together?
REVIEW: Mackerel Thursday
Reading Time: 2 minutesAbsurd, intense and darkly funny - this uncannily entertaining tragicomedy expertly plays with allegory and ambiguity.
REVIEW: Please Don’t Fall In Love With Me
Reading Time: 3 minutesFresh, funny, original - a pacey ride through a raunchy yet wholesome tale in a naughties’ Soho knickershop.
REVIEW: Laughing Matters
Reading Time: 2 minutesLaughing Matters plays at The Canal Cafe Theatre until Sunday 1 March 2026