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Sharp play Thanks For Having Me is Men Behaving Badly meets Friends. It's light, bright, date-night fun, writes GEORGINA BROWN

Following a couple of sell-out runs in small theatres, Keelan Kember's fast, funny dating drama looks a tad dwarfed in the barnlike Riverside Studios.

The rules of the game are simple: sound interesting (musician better than accountant), talk holidays, get her back to your place, insist there's no sex on a first date to set a challenge, play Amy Winehouse to prove you're a sensitive soul. As Cashel discovers when Honey's current squeeze, Maya, who is played by Adeyinka Akinrinade, introduces him to her up-for-it therapist friend, Eloise (Game of Thrones' Nell Tiger Free) The men are considerably better-written and more amusing than the sketchily drawn women, but Kember skilfully charts that tricky emotional passage from no-strings to tentative connection to provisional attachment to tying the knot.

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