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‘Because nothing says emotional growth quite like summoning your exes through an AI at 2 a.m.’

Relationships are hard. Online dating’s harder — especially when your therapist is ChatGPT.

Em is spiralling over a guy who ghosted her. She just wants closure (and maybe a text back). Instead, the app delivers a full-scale intervention — complete with a series of Romantic Accountability Avatars: ex matches providing unsolicited relational feedback.

A surreal rom-com about genuine vs performative connection, AI empathy, and the cost of ‘healing’.

Swipe right for existential crisis.

AUDIENCE REACTIONS:

‘Too real.’

‘Made me want to delete Hinge and also my soul.’

‘ChatGPT deserves an Olivier.’

‘A Christmas Carol: Hinge edition.’

‘Is she okay?’

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Each year Pleasance commits to supporting six London based theatre makers/writers for a two year residency as our Associate Artists, providing them with the transformative tools to take their work and craft to the next level. We asked them to curate a festival based around themes of their choosing. Futures Festival is the result!

Futures Festival showcases developing productions from leading independent performance makers and companies.

This show is part of Week 1, The Future Is Digital presented by Worklight Theatre.

A week of shows confronting the impact of AI on art, privacy, and democracy. Artists will explore themes of technology, authenticity, community, and what it means to be human in a rapidly shifting digital age.