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 Feb 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?
Performances at Norwich Puppet Theatre.
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