Love Online: Kanupriya Theatre Company Brings Romance in the Age of the Screen to Tagore Theatre
Chandigarh, 24 October 2026
In an age when a first “hello” arrives as a notification, a heartbreak plays out in blue ticks, and a relationship can begin and end without two people sharing a cup of tea, theatre has a new subject worth exploring. Kanupriya Theatre Company is bringing that subject to the stage with Love Online, to be performed at Tagore Theatre, Sector 18, Chandigarh, on 24 October 2026.
Tagore Theatre has been the city’s main performing arts venue for decades, and a play about modern relationships suits it. Chandigarh audiences are young, connected and quick to recognise themselves in what they see on stage.
A Story for the Swipe Generation
The title says what the play is about. Love Online looks at how affection is found, performed, tested and sometimes lost in the digital world. Dating apps, late-night chats, curated profiles, voice notes and video calls have changed how people meet. They have also changed what people expect from one another.
The central tension of such a story is easy to understand. Online, people can present the best version of themselves: the wittiest reply, the most flattering photograph, the most carefully chosen words. Offline, they have to face each other as they are. The distance between the two is where the drama lies, and also where the humour and the heartbreak come from.
Theatre handles this material well because it is live. A phone screen can hide a lie. A stage, with actors a few feet from the audience, makes it much harder to hide. The audience sees the pause before a message is sent, the nervousness behind a casual “typing…”, and the loneliness of someone scrolling through hundreds of contacts without feeling any closer to anyone.
Why the Theme Matters Now
Conversations about online relationships are often reduced to a warning (“technology is ruining romance”) or a celebration (“technology has made love easier”). Good theatre does not need to take either side. It can show that the same tools that let a shy person speak freely can also let a careless person disappear without explanation. It can show that a long-distance friendship may be more honest than a relationship in the same city, and that the oldest questions about trust, honesty and vulnerability have not changed even though the medium has.
Families have a stake in this too. Parents and children often experience the digital world very differently, and a play like Love Online can give them something to talk about together. Seeing a story on stage lets people discuss uncomfortable subjects, such as online deception, emotional dependence and the pressure to perform happiness, without it feeling personal.
Kanupriya Theatre Company
Kanupriya Theatre Company is known for staging work that speaks to everyday emotional experience. The name itself recalls Kanupriya, the figure from Hindi literary tradition associated with devotion, longing and separation. It is a fitting name for a company now turning to a new kind of separation, the one that exists between two people who are always in touch but not always truly together.
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Chandigarh’s theatre community has a long record of supporting original work, and independent companies have found steady audiences in the tricity. A production by Kanupriya Theatre Company adds to that tradition at a time when live performance is competing with streaming platforms and short videos for people’s evenings.
The Production
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A play like this depends on pace and staging. The show can be expected to use the contrast between the digital and the physical: scenes of chat and messaging set against moments of real encounter, with lighting, sound and movement marking the shift from one world to the other. The performers’ task is to make typed words feel spoken and silent screens feel full of emotion, which is a demanding exercise in stagecraft.
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What the Audience Can Expect
Audiences can expect a play that is light in tone but serious in intent. There is plenty of comedy in online romance: the over-enthusiastic first message, the profile picture that is a few years out of date, the endless discussion with friends about what a single emoji might mean. The play does not stop at humour, though. Beneath the laughter is a question every viewer will recognise: how do we know that another person is real, and how do we let ourselves be known in return?
By the final scene, the play aims to leave its audience with something more than a good evening. It invites people to think about the time they spend looking at screens compared with the time they spend looking at each other.
Event Details
- Production: Love Online
- Presented by: Kanupriya Theatre Company
- Venue: Tagore Theatre, Sector 18, Chandigarh
- Date: 24 October 2026
- Time: 06:30 PM
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- Contact: [Insert organiser contact number or email]
A Night Worth Putting the Phone Down For
There is a gentle irony in asking an audience to switch off their phones for two hours to watch a play about phones. That may be the best argument for the production. For the length of a performance, a roomful of strangers shares the same moment, laughs at the same lines, and pays attention to real people in real time.
For those who have ever felt the thrill of a new message, the sting of an unanswered one, or the quiet hope that a screen name might turn out to be someone worth meeting, Love Online is a play worth seeing. On 24 October, Tagore Theatre offers an evening to watch, laugh, think, and perhaps call someone you care about afterwards.
