When is it time to give up on capital-L love? To forgo the dream of roses, moonlit walks on the beach, and the idea of someone who sees right to the heart of you, and to simply shack up with someone who’ll scratch your back every now and then? At a certain point, don’t you have to ask how much first-date chitchat you have left in you? These are the cynical questions that Signature Theatre’s Strategic Love Play poses. The dark anti-rom-com, penned by Succession writer Miriam Battye and directed by Matthew Gardiner, is less an adherent of love-at-first-sight and more, say, shrug-and-just-settle.

The play follows Jenny (Bligh Voth) and Adam (Danny Gavigan), two 30-somethings who met on the apps and are on their first date at a bar. (Paige Hathaway designed the simple yet elegant setup.) The

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