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NEWSREVUE
It's the most wonderful time of the year here at Canal Café Theatre. Introducing the 2025 NewsRevue Christmas cast! Catch these fa-la-la-la-fabulous performers.
Current NewsRevue Team – Christmas 2025!
Director: Sophie Lynch-Furtado
Musical Director: Zara Harris
Cast: Dión Di Maio, Fraser Adams, Miles Blanch & Liberty Ashford
“Satirically brilliant” – The Guardian – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Preposterously talented” – Broadway Baby – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Utterly magnificent from start to finish” – LondonTheatre1 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
NewsRevue Season Pass!
For just £99, the pass is designed so that you can come and see each run of the year (7 standard runs, our Edinburgh Previews and our Christmas run), and make major savings compared to buying individual tickets!
For more information and to book, head to our
website
GARDEN PARTY
13, 15, 16, 17 May
An immersive true-crime cabaret celebrating beauty, scandal, and artistic rebellion.
Truman Capote, the master of glamour and scandal, returns to life in Garden Party – Truman Capote’s Black and White Celebration, an
immersive true-crime cabaret by Kulturscio’k Live Art Collective.
Inspired by Capote’s iconic 1966 ball, the performance explores fame, hypocrisy, and desire in a world teetering between elegance and cruelty. As society once again hides behind polite masks, Garden Party invites the audience to dance, unmask, and confront their own fascination with spectacle and truth.
THE INTERMISSION
1 - 3 June
Inspired by Edward Hopper’s 1963 painting of the same name, The Intermission explores fatherhood, sliding doors, and the secret life of a carnival goldfish.
Join Richard Walls (Violet Fields, Royal Court; Powder, Theatre Absolute) this June as he reckons with the shadow of a day he always knew would come.
IT’S A FUNNY NEW GAME
9 - 12 June
A comic look at the Beautiful Game – warts, VAR and all.
Do you think football was better in the old days? When players wore long shorts and earned two bob a week? Or do you prefer the modern game of megastar players with ridiculous hairstyles earning millions? Either way, actor turned football manager Barry Mousetrap will have something funny to say about it. Barry Mousetrap is the original VAR (Very Amusing Raconteur) and is proud to present his debut full-length show It’s A Funny New Game (The Changing Farce of Football).
The show features stand-up, sketches, and even a football themed Jane Austen spoof. Plus there’s a special World Cup quiz featuring England’s No.1.
Joining in the fun are Barry’s fellow managers Kurt Kliche – football’s most fashionable manager, Flange Costabobortwo – football’s most sacked manager and Sir Fergus McAllison – football’s most miserable manager. And who can resist the World’s most skillful (not to mention beautiful) footballer and underwear model – Ronald Biggego.
The Beautiful Game has never been more Beautiful or more funny.
MEN IN POWER: A WORK IN PROGRESS
19 June
Men are in power, but why? NipSlip are here to find out.
NipSlip Productions present MEN IN POWER.
This sexy duo (Dulcie Godfrey and Tallula White) explore MEN. POWER. FACIAL HAIR. SEX… (if you’re lucky) live on stage or your money back, through a series of sketches, interpretive dance and a secret third thing.
From the peaks of Mount Everest, to the depths of Dalston Superstore (why are they in there?) MEN seem to run the world… why? What is it that they have that NipSlip don’t? What is a MAN if not the same composition of nipples, leg hair and bush? The sexy duo that bring you monthly variety show NipSlip&Friends are here to find out.
IN THE COLD LIGHT
24 - 27 June
A grieving journalist seeks closure through a lost romance from a by-gone era.
The gravestones of two friends pull a journalist into an investigation he hopes will bury the past. Instead, it unearths the harsh reality of staying silent, confronting him with the one story he refused to tell.
Scottish playwright George Grant returns with this powerful meditation on grief. Making its debut at Canal Café Theatre, In the Cold Light is a sharp, intimate and quietly devastating exploration of how we mourn – and what we leave unsaid.
