The dating app yields a range of results in F*ck Tinder: a love story. (Photo courtesy of Capital Fringe).

Reminds us of: The Moth set to Spotify’s All the Feels playlist.

Flop, Fine or Fringe-tastic: Fringe-tastic.

At 43, David Rodwin was sitting on his couch in Los Angeles with his girlfriend, admiring her in the blue glow of her computer screen, thinking about how content he was. Apparently, it wasn’t mutual. An hour later, on a post-breakup walk, he got held up at gunpoint. Then he got the adrenaline pumping even higher: He moved to San Francisco and downloaded Tinder, an app he had never needed but perceived as offering “free sex, right now, often weird.”

What ensued was a two-year saga of right swipes, now condensed into a hilarious and heartbreaking 75-minute story which Rodwin tells solo and unscripted each night, though this East Coast premiere appears polished after runs in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Watching F*ck Tinder: a love story mimics the experience of being on Tinder. During some sections, the music speeds up and Rodwin rattles off date after date: a journalist, a psychologist, an Asian woman homesick for Germany.

In other sections, his pace slows to the seriousness of the relationship, and caricatures give way to raw, real people: a woman who takes pills for ovarian cancer; another with dreams of a feminist, multi-billion-dollar marijuana industry; another who has dirt under her fingernails from gardening and takes him to the symphony.

Like many people who have tried online dating, Rodwin periodically deletes the apps to take a break from “micro-aggression after micro-aggression”, but the lure of weird sex and the possibility of true love keeps him coming back. The result is an utterly relatable story of a man who went on 120 first dates, plus some second ones that mattered.

Where to See It: Christ United Methodist Church, 900 4th St SW

When to See It:, Saturday, July 14 at 4:15 p.m.; Sunday, July 15 at 5:45 p.m.; Thursday, July 19 at 9 p.m.; Friday, July 20 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, July 21 at 6:15 p.m.; Tuesday, July 24 at 8:15 p.m.; Saturday, July 28 at 6:45 p.m.

Check out all of our coverage of this year’s Capital Fringe Festival here.