Get Strategic Love Play tickets and go on a first date like none you’ve ever experienced before. TV stars Heléne Yorke (The Other Two, The Good Fight) and Michael Zegen (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Boardwalk Empire) join forces in this new romcom about dating in the digital age. If you’ve ever met someone on the apps and gone on a date, this show will be just like that — with a twist. Book Strategic Love Play tickets to see this “comedic tour de force” (The Guardian).
Table for two! Experience Strategic Love Play in New York to see the city premiere of this new play from Succession writer Miriam Battye. Katie Posner directs this hilarious play that won great acclaim at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, taking home its 2023 Fringe First Award. Now, see Strategic Love Play off Broadway for a limited run only, playing for five weeks at Audible Theater’s downtown Minetta Lane Theatre.
1hr 30min. No intermission.
November 1st, 2024
December 7th, 2024
By: Miriam Battye
Director: Katie Posner
Producer: Audible Theater and Chase This Productions
Cast list: Heléne Yorke and Michael Zegen
Sets: Arnulfo Maldonado
Costumes: Dede Ayite
Lighting: Jen Schriever
Sound: Tei Blow
It’s not hard to sit at a coffee shop, go out to dinner, or walk through a park and see a couple on a first date, meeting IRL for the first time. So in Strategic Love Play, it seems perfectly normal that the two unnamed characters, a man and a woman, should have a first date IRL after matching online. They liked what they saw, and now here they are.
But: the date does not go as planned. The conversation is rough, and the flirting is weird — and yet, they can’t leave their seats. Maybe something else is going on? A twisty look at our contemporary dating scene, Strategic Love Play is an inventive new work about being turned on online, and off offline. A hilarious look at modern forms of connection, the different ways attraction functions, and the impossibility of getting out of a sticky situation, this play is for anyone who’s ever sworn off the dating apps.
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