Swiping Right

Swiping Right
Swiping Right
Sophie Anna Veelenturf & BERLIN

Swiping Right

13.11.25 — 14.11.25

Can (online) dating bridge political divides? 

Can (online) dating be used as a tool to combat political polarization? 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 re-enacts 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.

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c Lisa Schamle and Nick Mattan

Practical info

Tickets
15-25 euros
Dutch
Language
Dutch
None
Subtitles
None
Good to know

In collaboration with VIERNULVIER

Dates

Thu 13.11.25 — 20u00

20u00

Ghent, Minard
Tickets

Fri 14.11.25 — 20u00

20u00

Ghent, Minard
Tickets

Credits

Concept, Text & Performance

Sophie Anna Veelenturf

Direction

Doris de Vries

Research, production & co-directing

Jarne Van Loon

Acting coaching

Kristien De Proost & Karolien De Bleser

Outside eye

Marah Haj Hussein

Scenography

Chloé Wasselin Dandre

Music composition & End mixing

Seppe Vande Veire

Technical manager

Marjolein Demey

Technical

Nick De Keyser

Coproduction

Het Laatste Bedrijf & Cambrigde Junction

Residencies

CAMPO, NTGent, kunstencentrum nona, c o r s o, Het Oude Badhuis, Theater aan Zee & de Brakke Grond 

Thanks to

all interviewees, Rashif El Kaoui & Josie Dale-Jones

With the support of

the Flemish Government, Tax Shelter measure of the Belgian federal government, Gallop Tax Shelter, theAuthors, the Stobbs New Ideas Fund

Dates

Thu 13.11.25 — 20u00

20u00

Ghent, Minard
Tickets

Fri 14.11.25 — 20u00

20u00

Ghent, Minard
Tickets

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