In the age of ‘swip­ing right’ and ‘real­ity’ dat­ing shows, the concept of live onstage dat­ing by far provides more enter­tain­ment. Bron Bat­ten so bril­liantly proved this on her open­ing night of Onstage Dat­ing.

In this show, there’s no oppor­tun­ity to accept or reject based on appear­ances and no pro­du­cers or edit­ors decid­ing on the nar­rat­ive. It’s just Bron on a stage, dat­ing someone from the audi­ence while the rest of us watch on. That may seem like a major spoil­er alert. It’s not because this show brings so many sur­prises.

There are loads of laughs and you’ll find your­self relat­ing to those cringey first date moments where you’re hyper aware of word choices and beha­viour.

Some­how, Bron magic­ally weaves enter­tain­ment and philo­sophy togeth­er as the show gets you think­ing about the evol­u­tion of rela­tion­ships and con­nec­tions and how they vary from spe­cies to spe­cies.

Bron’s date was a fant­ast­ic par­ti­cipant. At first he seemed reluct­ant, but to watch them warm to each oth­er, show their vul­ner­ab­il­ity and exper­i­ence real moments of con­nec­tion, in my mind, makes Bron a geni­us.

This show is bril­liant, now go and see it.

Onstage Dat­ing is on at Bats Theatre from 4–8 April at 8.30pm.

Book your tick­ets here.