Strategic Love Play

Name: Strategic Love Play
Start: 2026-02-14T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-02-14T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Latino Cultural Center

Schedule

Sat Feb 14 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Latino Cultural Center | Dallas, TX

Strategic Love Play — Regional Premiere in Dallas at Teatro Dallas’ 22nd International Theatre Festival
Two strangers on a first date try to outsmart love.
It’s funny, brutal, and painfully real — a play about dating, desire, control, and the tiny humiliations that come with wanting someone.
Modern dating brings the whole circus with it: ghosting, soft launches, existential swiping, performative coolness, and that one Hinge prompt you regret immediately.
Welcome to Hell — aka “looking for connection in 2025.”
Strategic Love Play, written by Miriam Battye, follows two people who think they know the rules. They’ve memorised the script — the charm, the pauses, the I-don’t-care-but-I-do choreography — until something cracks through the performance. The result is sharp, raw, awkward, and devastatingly funny.
It’s a story for anyone who’s ever been on Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, Breeze, Feeld, Grindr… or simply spent far too long rewriting a message that should’ve taken five seconds.
Support our show by helping us produce it for London and Dallas here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/strategicloveplay
Join us in Dallas for a painfully honest, unexpectedly hilarious dissection of love in the age of the swipe.
Bring a date. Bring an ex. Bring someone you matched with once and then panicked. This one cuts close to the bone.
We hope to see you there this Valentine's Day!