⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Strangers With Benefits (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025)
The intimacy of two strangers who use each other's bodies for sexual gratification is superbly explored in this considered, taboo-breaking drama.
By Hamza Jahanzeb
4 August 2025
Shadia Hafiz’s play centers two people for whom having anonymous sex is integral to their SWB (strangers with benefit) arrangement. Think Craigslist and its ‘casual encounters’ section i.e. M seeks F for passionate fun etc., long before the days of Tinder and Grindr were ever on the tips of our devices that emit blue light.