- Character: Emma
- Directed by: Lisa Blair
- Written by: Mike Bartlett
- Other cast: Sara Stewart
- Premiere date: June 2016
- Running time: 1h
- Theatre/Producer: Crucible Studio, Sheffield
Emma, in sales, is doing well in her new job. But when she starts seeing a colleague, Darren, her manager asks her to a meeting. She’s informed this new relationship means she’s in breach of contract… A dark and funny play about intrusion, management and ever-decreasing privacy.
Theatre Productions > 2016 | “Contractions”
“Leslie is fantastic, her calm, self-assured manner slowly collapsing as the indignities mount up upon her – by the time she’s glaring wide-eyed at Stewart yelling “Do you bleed?”, you almost want to jump on stage and usher her away for her own protection.” ( Exunt Magazine)
“Rose Leslie impressively charts Emma’s dissolution from pert self-confidence to quasi-Jacobean levels of persecution.” (The Guardian)
“Leslie, whose previous roles include the spear-maiden, Ygritte, in Game of Thrones, is a fragile, almost waiflike figure, dressed in complexion-sapping grey with intimations of prison garb. But a steely edge of defiance animates her encounters with the manager.” (The Telegraph)
“Leslie has a wider emotional range to cover and superbly brings out that stage between early acceptance and final outbursts when she is trying desperately to couch her responses in office-think and office-speak.” (What’s On Stage)