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  Meeting the man/woman/person of your dreams is difficult enough at the best of times, but in a lockdown situation, it’s pretty much impossible. However, all hope is not lost as, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, there are a preponderance of dating apps where swiping left or right may be the way to meet that special one. Into the field comes a new app,  Manimals , and I was lucky enough to attend a workshop on the App the other night. Before the workshop started, I received instructions on how to set up my Manimals profile, a lot less of a painful experience than for some dating apps. Then, at the appointed time, I opened Zoom and got ready to play – and who knows, meet the partner of my dreams – along with the other workshop members. When we arrived, we were given a briefing by Mimi on the workshop and the technical and access support available to us. We were also warned that the workshop wasn’t really SFW, which intrigued me even more. We then went off in pairs to...

Games For Lovers – Photo by Geraint Lewis Back in the mists of time, relationships and love were two separate things. A match between and a boy and a girl would be arranged and terms agreed between the respective families and that was that. If the couple were lucky, they might, over the course of their life together, fall in love with each other but, if not, as long as the relationship was stable, everything was good. Nowadays, things are much more complicated. Singles bars, speed dating, apps and the various rules around dating, make finding the ‘right one’ more like work than fun. That’s the theory at the heart of Ryan Craig’s play  Games for Lovers , receiving its world premiere at The Vaults Theatre. In contemporary London, four millennials are searching for love, each using their own method to find what they seek. Radiologist Martha (Evanna Lynch) spends much of her time either pining over co-worker Dr Robert, or her best friend Logan (Calum Callaghan). For his part, PE t...

https://www.londontheatre1.com/news/199309/review-love-me-now-tristan-bates-theatre-london/ Gianbruno Spena, Helena Wilson and Alistair Toovey, Love Me Now, credit of Helen Murray Has dating ever been easy? Years ago, finding the elusive Mr/Ms Right was apparently fairly simple. Everyone stayed in the same area they were born in and would either marry someone they had grown up with or someone they met at work – in the 1970s it was estimated 25% of people married someone they first met in the workplace. Nowadays, it should be really simple. There are dating websites and dating apps aplenty. In fact, you don’t even need to want to start dating, there are apps where like-minded people can meet to enjoy the simple pleasures of each other’s company. However, in Michelle Barnette’s new play  Love Me Now  at the Tristan Bates Theatre, it may be a case of being careful what you wish for. The play revolves around three people identified only as A (Alistair Toovey), B (Helena Wils...