Breezy conversational chatter, dry one-liners and sweeping generalisations about the sexes reign in Keelan Kember’s new dating comedy. Having transferred from the King’s Head theatre, the highest stakes here concern whether or not to get breakfast the morning after.
Two young men, who give little evidence of being able to keep their kitchen as clean as Ellie Wintour’s sleek set suggests, attempt to teach each other how to get the girl. One is a player. The other is only ever known monogamy. Cue lots of mock shock about the supposed rules of modern dating. In the era of Andrew Tate, it’s all charmingly innocent, the men’s confusion about women coming purely from boyish eagerness.
