Given the survival of the species depends on it, the mating game is surprisingly hard. After so many millennia we should have cracked it by now but, as the popularity of everything from problem pages to Love Island attests, we never cease to agonise over it. In Miriam Battye’s very funny comedy, the effort, the exasperation, the unknowability of finding a partner have brought her protagonists to an impasse.
Billed as Her and Him and played, winningly, by Letty Thomas and Archie Backhouse, they have met for a date and face a depressing ritual of getting to know each other. If they finish one pint, they will have fulfilled the obligation to be polite. Two and they might even like each other.
