Strategic Love Play by Miriam Battye

Winner – Edinburgh Fringe First Award 2023

A Drama Mavericks Production, directed by David Lester

Performance Dates: 19 - 21 & 26 - 28 March 2026

They met on a dating app. Now they’re face to face — and it’s not going well.

What starts as a painfully awkward first date spirals into something darker, funnier, and wildly unpredictable. With biting wit and brutal honesty, Strategic Love Play rips into the rituals of modern romance — the games we play, the masks we wear, and the desperation for something real.

Ahead of the full run at Norwich Puppet Theatre, you’ll be able to catch pop-up 10-minute previews featuring the cast in selected pubs in Norwich. A drink, a date, a dose of emotional turmoil — what could go wrong?