Arcola theatre, London
Running time: 1h 15m
Age Restrictions: Age guidance 16+
One night. One club. 16 women.
Set in the heart of a London 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 girls in chaos; queer and trans lives in motion; an American woman trying to belong; a hen party unravelling; women in their 30s quietly falling apart – and rebuilding.
Bodies. Sex. Careers. Shame. Euphoria. Sisterhood.
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.
Winner of a Fringe Theatre Award, a Bitesize Award for Best Direction, and one of Financial Times’ top nine shows at 2025’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this hilarious, fast-moving, ensemble comedy-drama is told in fragments and flushes. Capturing the blur of being many things at once: bold, fragile, furious, absurd, this is an ode to the women who hold your hair back, hype you up, and sometimes just hand you loo roll.
Arcola theatre
Arcola theatre
24 Ashwin Street, Dalston
London
E8 3DL