Is there inherent virtue in depicting contemporary existence on stage?

Say what you will about Strategic Love Play’s execution, but this new play — at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre through December 7 — gives voice to the sea of single millennials searching for companionship in the modern dating scene. 

Now, the pursuit of love is far from new fodder for art, but there has never been as many single Americans in their 30s as right now.

Shows like Company document the prior generation’s experience with being the sole bachelor surrounded by couples, but the number of bachelors has risen, and the nature of their bachelordom has changed, and they’re all trying to find each other through the apps, or in more old-fashioned ways.

Yet they still seem so crushingly lonely. And alone. And isolated. And self-harming.

And does the sheer act of putting this widely-lived truth on stage have intrinsic artistic value?