{"id":63160,"date":"2025-09-04T17:07:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=63160"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:18:09","slug":"game-set-match","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/game-set-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Game. Set. Match."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Playhouse Studio Theatre at New Covent Garden (located in a much-revamped Mall of the Emirates space that now includes a fully-equipped 575-seater theatre plus dance and rehearsal studios and a new restaurant) opens with this new Tall Tales \/ Cross Bronx Studio production..<\/p>\n<p>It has been adapted from the 2016 Italian film <em>Perfect Strangers<\/em>, itself a critical and commercial success that has resonated with audiences around the world and generated a number of remakes and reworkings; for this production, writer Sid Abbas has switched the locale to Dubai&#8217;s tennis scene. Set in a luxury tennis club suite, the play follows seven long-time friends reunited for a destination wedding; but a seemingly innocent game of sharing phone messages and calls turns into digital Russian roulette. Secrets, affairs, emotional confessions, and some truly terrible texting etiquette emerge &#8230; We&#8217;re promised fast-paced dialogue, laugh-out-loud moments, and gut-punch emotional turns: &#8220;if you&#8217;ve ever been in a relationship, had a group chat, or made a mistake you hoped your partner would never see \u2014 this play is for you&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Satya Baskaran directs.<\/p>\n<p>The play run 12 to 14 September at 7.30pm, with a 3pm matin\u00e9e on 13 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The Playhouse Studio Theatre at New Covent Garden (located in a much-revamped Mall of the Emirates space that now includes a fully-equipped 575-seater theatre plus dance and rehearsal studios and a new restaurant) opens with this new Tall Tales \/ <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/game-set-match\/\" title=\"Game. Set. Match.\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[55],"class_list":["post-63160","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-theatre","cat_theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/63160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/63160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63160"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=63160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}