When Mark reacts unexpectedly in the face of a violent mugging, his girlfriend Jess is left with questions. Does she have the right to feel betrayed by Mark’s failure to defend her – even when the incident turns out to have been a harmless prank? As the young couple attempt to repair their differences, rom-com sparring exposes something more sinister: a thorny and unsettling discussion of gender politics that refuses to take sides.

Flinch is a darkly comic play about the struggle for intimacy by writer and performer Emma Hemingford.

Flinch is generously supported by Arts Council England.

“A promising debut that gets under the skin of a troubled relationship” - The Guardian

“Appealingly playful” - The Stage

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