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Yorkshire Theatre Newsletter: What's On This Week (Dec 10-16)

Yorkshire Theatre Newsletter: What's On This Week (Dec 10-16)

A Wish, A Song, Maybe Even A Prayer... Yorkshire Theatre For All Ages At Christmas.

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She Loves Me opens at Sheffield Theatres this week

In the days before t’internet you could find love by answering an advert in the Lonely Hearts column of a local newspaper. I once worked with a woman who contracted a long and happy second marriage in this way. But the only time I tried it, I found myself wandering around a motor-cycle shop in Leeds with a guy who didn’t even have a licence. We were, to put it mildly, not fated to be.

Then email arrived and the ether was full of lovelorn people writing carefully crafted letters to potential suitors. This was the era of Nora Ephron’s classic 1990s romcom You’ve Got Mail, in which Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan thought they hated each other until… you know the rest.

And then the dating apps arrived. Decorous at first, but increasingly less so, until finally we have arrived at today’s swipe-right, ‘hook-up’ culture. I met this newsletter’s marketing sponsor on Match.com in 2007 — he was in Yorkshire for a few months doing lucrative, top-secret thi…

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