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BARELY HUMAN

13 - 15 March

Post-prison cabaret at its messiest: can violence ever be justified?

Eva’s out of prison on early release. Her therapist said a cabaret would be a great creative outlet. So here she is! She’s a bit raw still. She’s a bit raw all the time, actually. But her parole officer will be there, so she can’t do anything too crazy. Right? She’s going to sing some songs for you. And tell you some funny stories. Be nice and help her start her new life off fresh. By the by, people take things too literally – don’t you think? There’s a lot of violence in the world,
and sometimes you’ve just got to make a statement. Symbolic crime, if you will. Chocolate milk, anyone?

Barely Human is Eva Voss’s second cabaret. Her first, Yeet The Dog, explored the dark side of life in a humorous, heartfelt way: we’re all going to experience loss, pain and absurdity, so we’d better love our lives through it. Eva also co-founded Far Between Theatre (@farbetweentheatre), with whom she will be performing a raucous jazz-age Much Ado About Nothing in March 2026. Far Between Theatre makes it its mission to tell stories of softness, difference and violence, encouraging audiences to open up their hearts and fire up
their bellies.

16 - 28 March SKETCHFEST

This new festival of sketch theatre is a collaboration between two theatres, Canal Cafe and The Hen and Chickens in Islington.  All the companies will perform their sketch shows at both venues.  Here below are the shows - dates and full details on the theatre websites.

SYNCING

 “No one’s gonna remember Justin Timber-fake anyway!” After the sudden departure of their star member, JT, the once legendary boy band NSYNC is left to pick up the ...

CHAOS THEORY - DESPERATE SKETCHWIVES

Chaos Theory is a sketch and character group like you have never seen before! They are four actor/writers – Maria Beadell, Mikyla Jane Durkan, Yasser Kayani and Bruce ...

FORCED RHUBARB

Forced Rhubarb are a sketch comedy group here to take you on a whirlwind adventure through time* and space** from the ancient past to the far future on a stream of ...

THE PAST

From the creators of the award-winning sell-out immersive comedies Burning Down the Horse and It’s Gonna Blow!, comes THE PAST – the world’s first immersive ...

WILL & NOAH

Will & Noah are friends, great friends, and have been for ages. But you wouldn’t go to a comedy night to just see two friends pal around would you!? That’s why they’ve ...

NEXT LEVEL SKETCH

For their debut hour, Next Level Sketch are performing a Greatest Hits set of their very stupidest sketches from the past six years. Expect pirate religious figures, exceptionally ...

FROGBONE TROMBONE

Frogbone Trombone is a group of uni friends who couldn’t let go of 2024. Instead of accepting adulthood, they decided the only way to feel a sense of purpose was to ...

RED BALLOONS IN A TRENCHCOAT

Absurdist and hyperactive sketch comedy from Cambridge Footlights’ Baz Evans and Alex Denley Spencer. Enjoy sketches with zing, spice and dance numbers. A show where ...

FINLAY & JOE - PRETEND IT'S FIEN

Leicester Square Sketch Off Finalists’ Finlay Stroud and Joe Peden are a London-Manchester creative alliance. Inspired by acts like Aunty Donna, Mitchell and Webb and ...

SUPERMALTS

Swedish born Carlos Sandin and Shropshire’s own Fred Newnes are the UK’s only clownprov double act. Gigging throughout London’s improv and alt comedy ...

SAM & GAZ

A classic sketch duo at its best – just with one member running a tad late… Gaz and Sam have performed in comedy festivals up and down the country, and Sam knows Gaz will NEVER ...

THE TINY UMBRELLAS

The Tiny Umbrellas are your new favourite friend group of fresh young talent, bringing you hilarious sketches to shelter from the rainstorm of life. Journey with them ...

CANKER BLOSSOMS

CANKER BLOSSOMS have assembled for Sketch Fest 2026, they bring with them new and old material, sketch-ellent slapstick, fresh funnies and four comedy talents who have ...

TWO OLD MEN

It’s the early 21st century sketch team super group that everybody/nobody’s waiting for. The tall one from The Consultants and the angry one from Club Seals JUSTIN EDWARDS ...

BISCUIT BARREL - THE 69 SKETCH SHOW

Fresh off Hollywood Fringe and their sixth Edinburgh Fringe, Biscuit Barrel arrive in London with slapstick, songs, wordplay, absurd characters, biscuits and even beatboxing. Not to ...

LOSE YOUR MARBLES

30 March

An evening of pure absurdist comedy with extreme ASMR practitioner Yogie Belle and friends.

Get ready to Lose Your Marbles at the Canal Café Theatre in Little Venice, Maida Vale!

Curated by the worlds #1 extreme ASMR practitioner and sound beautician, Yogie Belle, this vaudevillian extravaganza delivers a hand-picked line-up of alternative acts who’ll leave you wailing with joy like a dolphin that’s escaped from Leningrad zoo.

Unapologetically original absurd alternative comedy— from the front trenches of the fringe.

Lose Your Marbles celebrates the theatre of the weird, the wild, and the wonderfully bizarre in a collision of storytelling, performance, music and clowning in a kaleidoscope of unlimited limitless silliness.

Looking for Wolverhampton’s Latin Quarter

3 April

A funny, touching and self-deprecating account of growing up in 1970s Wolverhampton.

Winner of the New York Radio Festivals Award 2025 for his collaboration
with Andrew McGibbon on their acclaimed Radio 4 play When Alan met
Ray, starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, Ian returns to Canal
Cafe with his sell out Edinburgh Fringe comedy play about growing up in
Wolverhampton in the 1970s.

He looks back at his deluded teenage years. Being a trainee butcher at
the Co-op is only a temporary situation before he reveals his true artistic
talents to the world. No careers officer or personnel manager is going to
stop him producing his rock album, publishing his poetry or mounting
his first exhibition. A world of awkward romantic relationships, Sex Pistols, Crossroads and Angel Delight.

ATTACHMENT THEORY

8, 10 , 11, 12 April

A queer romance told from the therapist’s chair.

Two queer men sit down to their therapy sessions to navigate their fresh romance. One is a former American monk with a troubled past. The other, a anxiety-prone, privileged English painter courting drug addiction. They don’t realize, as they open up about their deepest feelings about the other, that they’re seeing the same therapist.

As their memories begin to contradict and trauma re-emerges, the audience (playing the therapist) must consider who might be telling the truth, and where to place their trust.

TITLE GOES HERE

17/18 April

Starring Brad Collett as your host join us for an unforgettable evening of laughter and improvised chaos!

Title Goes Here: An Improv Comedy is a fast-paced, laugh-out-loud night of
unscripted chaos where no two shows are the same!

Touring nationwide with a core cast of top-notch comedians, each performance features a different local guest actor, keeping the comedy fresh, unpredictable, and full of surprises.

From audience driven scenes to bizarre games and on-the-spot songs, it’s comedy made up right before your eyes — and it’s never happening that way again!

ROGER PRICK: SEXOPOLIS

24 April

A pornographer- AHEM! EROTIC NOVELIST- launches the newly revised, feminist edition of his novel, in this character comedy drag show!

That’s right, it’s Roger Prick! 1970s pornographer, erotic novelist, and celebrity Casanova. Now it’s 2026 and he’s ready to relaunch his dirtiest novel, revised and edited for the post Me Too era. It’s modern! It’s feminist! It’s progressive! The gorgeous naked vixens are still there, but now they all have names. Roger’s
one of the good guys… even if he is greasy, lecherous, perverted and licking his lips a bit too much.

Hold onto your cigar and don’t miss this sleazy, silly, and satirical character comedy drag show. Expect bawdy jokes, dirty book readings and live drawings (Roger illustrates his own books after all)!

Roger Prick is the drag persona of Han Whyte, stand-up comedian, character comic and finalist of Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off 2025. SEXOPOLIS is her debut work-in-progress solo show.

DATING’S A DRAG!

28 April

One lucky person wins a date with the drag performer of the audiences choice.

Is your love-life not going your way? Looking for a new way to meet the one of your dreams? Or just want a little flirtatious night of fun? Then come on down to Canal Cafe!

One lucky person will get to have drag performers compete for a chance to date them. Just put your name in the hat when you enter and it could be you! And don’t worry, you won’t have to be the one to choose which drag performer is right for you. The winner will be decided by the entire audience.

Hosted by the one, the only, GYNOMIGHT!

A NIGHT AT THE WEST END

6 May

Iconic West End hits, powerful vocals and the songs you love with Nancy May.

A Night at the West End is a celebration of the songs you know and the stories you love, performed by acclaimed vocalist Nancy May.

From soaring ballads to timeless showstoppers, this special one-night concert brings together some of the most loved music from the West End and beyond. Audiences can expect favourites from Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Oliver! and more, all performed with emotion and powerful vocals.

Whether you’re a lifelong musical theatre fan or simply love a great night of live music, A Night at the West End offers an evening of unforgettable melodies, heartfelt storytelling and pure theatrical magic in one of London’s most intimate performance spaces.

THE NIGHT ALI DIED

8 - 10 May

A gripping and cinematic solo thriller about a man who becomes dangerously out of his depth in the criminal underworld.

A multi-award winning solo thriller by storyteller Chris Sainton-Clark.

Ali is wanted dead by a vicious London Gangster and is placed under police surveillance for the protection of him and his family, yet for some reason, Ali decides to sneak out into the night, sparking a bloody domino effect that ricochets through the sleepy streets of his city.

Through the brutal accounts of Ali, a henchman, a detective and a mob boss, find out what on earth happened on the night Ali died.

The Night Ali Died premiered at Prague Fringe 2025 and has been collecting a vast amount of accolades since, winning five awards in its first six months of touring. Its cinematic style and bold and punchy soundtrack has taken over the fringe circuit with an electric buzz.

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.