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This is the tale of Jonah and Sophie. It’s a love story. A dysfunctional love story, but a love story all the same. Against the lonely backdrop of London, the worlds of two shy individuals collide, and a charming, delicate and darkly funny story unfolds before your eyes.
Porter's writing is so offbeat it can be hard to know where the beat actually falls at times, but the low-key delight of Joe Murphy's production for Soho theatre and the Nabokov theatre company is that it transforms themes of loneliness, grief and voyeurism into something tender and lovable.
There's no doubt this play is clever and thought-provoking, it just leaves you feeling a bit empty.
Blink is on tour across the UK until 5 March and is strongly recommended to anyone who would enjoy a “small, big, silly, serious, semi-ridiculous play”.
Phil Porter's stage romcom Blink subverts the stereotypes of its genre
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Thursday February 20, 2014, until Saturday February 22, 2014. More info: www.traverse.co.uk
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