Strategic Love Play
- Full Length Play, Drama, Comedy, Contemporary
- 1M, 1F
- ISBN: 9780571387687
With acid wit, Miriam Battye's play takes a scalpel to modern romance.
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Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama, Comedy
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
- Accolades:
- Winner! Edinburgh Fringe First Award (2023)
And when you see what's out there. What do you want with it.
Do you want to fuck it. Like, weekly? Or do you want to sort of. Put your hands in its pockets. Take it to your mother. Love it until you die. Sort of thing.
With acid wit, Miriam Battye's play takes a scalpel to modern romance.
No! Fuck NO. I don’t want to, like, go for WALKS and use and reuse those METAL FOIL SERVING trays all my life NO. I want to TEAR SOMEONE APART.
Strategic Love Play opened at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, in July 2023, produced by Paines Plough, Soho Theatre and Belgrade Theatre, in association with Landmark Theatres.
Winner of a Fringe First Award for outstanding new writing.
This play is published by Faber and Faber.
REVIEWS:
Do you want to fuck it. Like, weekly? Or do you want to sort of. Put your hands in its pockets. Take it to your mother. Love it until you die. Sort of thing.
With acid wit, Miriam Battye's play takes a scalpel to modern romance.
No! Fuck NO. I don’t want to, like, go for WALKS and use and reuse those METAL FOIL SERVING trays all my life NO. I want to TEAR SOMEONE APART.
Strategic Love Play opened at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, in July 2023, produced by Paines Plough, Soho Theatre and Belgrade Theatre, in association with Landmark Theatres.
Winner of a Fringe First Award for outstanding new writing.
This play is published by Faber and Faber.
REVIEWS:
"A comedic tour de force."
The Guardian
"The brutality of modern dating laid excruciatingly bare... hilarious and painful... an ingenious encapsulation of the ways that online dating warps human interactions."
Evening Standard
"Sizzling... a ferociously good two-hander."
The Stage
Premiere Production:
Paines Plough, Soho Theatre & Belgrade Theatre, 2023.
Characters
- Casting: 1M, 1F
