Theatre Club • Swiping Right • Cambridge Junction

Name: Theatre Club • Swiping Right • Cambridge Junction
Start: 2025-09-10T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Cambridge Junction

Schedule

Wed, 10 Sep, 2025 at 08:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Cambridge Junction | Cambridge, EN

Maddy Costa & Cambridge Junction present Theatre Club
Do you like watching theatre, but wish you had someone to talk with about what you see? Do you enjoy talking about theatre, but hate post-show discussions? Do you find talking about theatre a bit intimidating? Theatre Club is for all of you!
It’s a very informal conversation space similar to book groups: people see a show, then meet to chat about it. No specialist knowledge is needed, and the artists who made the show aren’t invited, so you can share your questions and responses without fear of offending them. Confused? Bored? Delighted? It’s all welcome!
Just turn up after the show and get involved. Look out for Theatre Club signage in the foyer on the below dates. We’d love you to join us!
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THE SHOW
Swiping Right
Presented by Sophie Anna Veelenturf / BERLIN
Can online dating be used as a tool to combat political polarisation?
In Swiping Right, Sophie Anna Veelenturf examines what happens when political opposites meet in intimate situations. How does ideology influence our dating, desires and relationships? How do political divides impact the way in which we compromise between attraction and resistance? Based on her own experience of doomed dates with right-wing, conservative men, Sophie Anna, a self-proclaimed ‘leftie’, brings her own personal quest to the stage.
With humour and sharp dialogue, she brings to the stage theatrical re-enactments of the interviews she conducted, not just with her dates, but also with politically mixed couples and academics of all political persuasions. The result is a fascinating blend of ideology and intimacy, in which Sophie Anna flirts with stand-up and documentary theatre. In an uncompromising yet vulnerable way, she explores the boundaries between love and politics. In doing so, she holds up a mirror to the audience and asks the burning question: do opposites really attract?