FLUSH
‘This cubicle, it’s like a confessional. If I tell you all my sins will you buy me a drink?’
Set in the heart of a Shoreditch club, FLUSH unfolds entirely in the women’s bathroom – a space of eyeliner touch-ups, whispered confessions, and fleeting connections. Over the course of one night, stories slip between the cracks of the cubicles: teenage drama, thirty-something fatigue, love, loss, career spirals, sex, motherhood, bad dates, and worse decisions.
Billie has just experienced something she can’t quite name yet. As she hovers between shock and clarity, the bathroom becomes a strange kind of shelter – where strangers offer tampons, stories, and the occasional unsolicited life advice. A fast-moving, ensemble comedy-drama told in fragments and flushes, FLUSH captures the blur of being many things at once: bold, fragile, furious, absurd. An ode to the women who hold your hair back, hype you up, and sometimes just hand you loo roll.
Photography by Jake Bush (@jakebbush).
Writer April Hope Miller
Director Merle Wheldon
Lighting Designer Jack Hathaway
Composer Aaron Miller and Rob Wheatley (Jacana People)
Sound Designer Yanni Ng
Set Designer Consultant Alex Berry
Stage Manager Chloe Berry
London Technician Maddy Whitby
Movement Director Kate Crisp
Set Builder Jamie Haigh
Dramaturg Alex Horton
Visual Artist Robbie Torquati
Producer Launch Box Productions
Cast April Hope Miller, Jazz Jenkins, Joanna Strafford, Ayesha Griffiths, and Miya Ocego
This production was a finalist for the Charlie Hartill Award 2025.
Reviews for FLUSH
“Technically, too, the show is spot on with the music blaring when needed, sound effects like toilets flushing, and the light creating special moments.”
— Saskia Wesnigk-Wood for FringeReview (5-stars, included as FringeReview’s Highly Recommended Show)
“Aided by quick-changing lights (Jack Hathaway) and club-inspired music (Yanni Ng, Jacana People), director Merle Wheldon crafts a cinematic depiction of Billie’s trauma-and-ketamine-induced haze, as clubgoers swirl around her in fast motion.”
— Lola Stakenburg for TheSpyInTheStalls
“Billie’s storyline, in particular, hits hard and in one scene she locks herself in a cubicle mid panic attack, her surroundings blurring and contorting as she tries to make sense of her night, repeating exchanges and piecing together fragments of memory.”
— Chloe Vilarrubi for The Theatre Gal (5-stars)
“Sound effects are perfectly timed whenever a girl is in a graffiti-decorated cubicle.”
— Vivien Devlin for Edinburgh Guide (5-stars)
“FLUSH’s lighting and music complimented one another and the play’s script so perfectly. With a significant focal point of the performance being on character Billie, the tech interweaved creatively with her emotions to magnify their effect, at times transporting the audience into her headspace.”
— Alice Locker for The Student (5-stars)
“The lighting, music enhances the girl’s acting and creates such a great atmosphere it keeps the tension throughout!”
— Ellie Charlish (Audience Review)