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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
CAMDEN FRINGE SHOWS - FULL LINE UP BELOW
or PICK UP A BROCHURE AT CANAL CAFE THEATRE
CAMDEN FRINGE SHOWS
3 - 30 August
The Camden Fringe is a performing arts festival, established in 2006, which takes place in Camden during August. Anyone and everyone is welcome to apply. Previous fringe events have encompassed new writing, opera, musicals, stand-up, sketch comedy, dance, cabaret, poetry, opera, mentalism, improvisation and opera. Shows take place throughout the day and generally last one hour.
The Camden Fringe was set-up as an alternative to Edinburgh Festival, offering performers the chance to try out new material and different ideas in a supportive setting with less time and financial commitments than EdFringe did at the time. The Camden Fringe aims to give anyone the chance to perform and showcase their talents, from very experienced performers and companies, to ambitious newcomers. Since 2006 the Camden Fringe has gained a reputation for supporting acts, providing helpful information and guidance for the acts involved.
CLOSURE CABARET
3 & 4 August
How do you get over an ex? You play them on stage, naturellement! Welcome to Razmatastique’s solo clown cabaret of past lovers.
Step into the Closure Cabaret, a solo clown show for anyone who’s ever found themselves unable to get over an ex. Heartbroken emcee Razmatastique (Maria Ansdell’s French-accented, semi-autobiographical alter ego) cannot let her past lovers go, so she summons them back for one final, no-holds-barred encore in search of that elusive fix-all solution: closure.
From bad-boy playground pirates to emotionally unavailable illusionists, these heartbreakers return to the stage – jazz-handed into public inspection – to flaunt their dazzling skills and questionable charm. What begins as a vaudevillian spoof unravels into something deeper: a heartfelt exploration into the emotional fallout of modern dating and our urge to romanticise the past and idealise love that may no longer serve us. Through parody and pathos, Razmatastique becomes a mirror for anyone who’s ever tried (and failed) to let go gracefully.
Created and performed by Maria Ansdell, this absurd clown show blends character comedy, heartfelt storytelling and riotous audience participation to turn longing into laughs.
VIVE LE CRICKET – One Man’s Mission to Convert a Nation
3 - 5 August
English commentator attempts the impossible: converting the French to cricket.
The raffish, occasionally irascible, Rex Constantine Vaughan Williams is a man on a mission. For years the Paris-based Englishman has had the niche role of commentating cricket in French but now the broadcasters are pulling the plug…
Why is it, Rex wants to know, that the French were more than happy to adopt rugby and rebrand it as their own but continue to shun the glorious summer game, even though they may well have invented it?
Rex slaloms through a brief history of cricket in France, flicks on the red light in the French Match Special commentary box where we meet his gloriously mismatched gallic co-commentators.
And that’s when Rex cries Révolution!
Vive le Cricket! is a one-man show created by NG Bristow and Barney Spender who takes on the role of Rex, drawing on his own decades of experience as… a cricket commentator in France.
Please note: Unlike the commentators, the audience do NOT need to be fluent in either French or Cricket.
BOY, OH BOY… MY, WHAT A LADY!
7 & 8 August
A cabaret-inspired journey through 20th-century pop culture.
This solo performance blends dance, clowning, drag, acting, live piano, and song into a cabaret-inspired journey through 20th-century pop culture.
Alyssa Warning guides the audience from the silent film era and the Jazz Age through Hollywood glamour, the countercultural movements of the
later decades, and into the 1980s and 1990s, embodying a shifting cast of characters.
Through parody satire, nostalgia, and audience interaction, the work playfully examines gender norms and cultural stereotypes while celebrating transformation and performance
Aunty Mei is Looking for a Wife
AUNTY MEI IS LOOKING FOR A WIFE Aunty Mei is on a journey to matchmake her daughter with London’s finest lesbians.
Aunty Mei is Looking for a Wife
Friday 7th - Sunday 9th August
£12 - £15
BAD CHAMPAGNE One dinner, two couples, five years of pent up emotions.
Bad Champagne
Sunday 9th & Monday 10th August
£8 - £10
THIS COULD’VE GONE BETTER A young woman is trapped in a supermarket freezer on the most important night of her life.
This Could've Gone Better
Tuesday 11th - Thursday 13th August
£10 - £13
Your Favo(u)rite American Woman
YOUR FAVO(U)RITE AMERICAN WOMAN C fights her inner coloniser the only way she knows how: through song and dance.
Your Favo(u)rite American Woman
Tuesday 11th - Sunday 16th August
£12 - £15
HOT BANANA Based on her debut memoir, Abi takes you on an authentic blast through highlights of a life well-lived.
Hot Banana
Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th August
£8 - £10
AND KILL HIM IN THE SHELL A double bill exploring identity, deception, alienation, and the material value of time.
And Kill Him In The Shell
Monday 17th - Wednesday 19th August
£8 - £12
DEAR LIHUA Qiuqiu is dead. Unfortunately, death still comes with paperwork.
Dear Lihua
Wednesday 19th & Thursday 20th August
£10 - £12
WINDCHIMES A young man explores his grief through a bond with a sentient wind chime and is forced to face his complicated relationship with masculinity and vulnerability.
Windchimes
Friday 21st & Saturday 22nd August
£8 - £10
MAZ PANTZ Are you ready to laugh your Pantz off? This comedy sketch show combines physical comedy and cleverly written script with some bizarre twists to make you do just that.
Maz Pantz
Friday 21st - Tuesday 25th August
£8 - £10
A STORY ABOUT LOVE A solo performance about limerence, desire, and the long road back to oneself.
A Story About Love
Tuesday 25th & Wednesday 26th August
£10 - £15
Sláine: The Horned God
22 September
Join professional storyteller Jason Buck for a tale of ancient Celtic heroes and villains, monsters and magic, dragons and demons, and goddesses and gods.
Set in a “time which is not a time” when Britain was rife with magic and mischief, this show brings together epic heroic exploits and divine transformations of the one who would be High King of the Tribes of the Earth Goddess, reimagining ancient mythologies, adapted and brought to life through traditional storytelling, for modern audiences.
In partnership with 2000 AD and Rebellion Publishing, created by Pat Mills ‘the godfather of British comics’ and Angie Kincaid, Sláine has captured the imagination of comics readers for generations.
“If you get a chance go see this and get taken to an ancient Celtic world” – Carl, Manchester
“I saw him at the Jorvik festival last week. It was incredible.” – Terry ‘The Science Viking’
“Not knowing the stories of Sláine at all I now want to read them. Absolutely brilliant, didn’t want it to end” – Preview show, Oxford
