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Emma Hemingford’s promising debut gets under the skin of a troubled relationship and refuses to take sides
Emma Hemingford has written and co-stars in this promising debut play about a nervously cohabiting young couple. It’s a kind of angsty Private Lives for Generation Z and what it lacks in physical action it makes up for in its psychological acuity, showing two people bound together by a mix of ratty recrimination and fear of failure.
Jess is a young actor, just out of drama school, living on hopes and dreams; her partner, Mark, is a City trader indifferent to the arts. But their relationship is marred by an incident in which, on the way back to their Bethnal Green flat, Mark flinched in the face of a potentially violent mugger. This blights the couple’s future life and underscores the fact that, in their aspirations and attitudes, they are marching to different rhythms.
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