Having finally moved away from the quiet village that raised her, Emmy’s perspectives are changing. Sally and Dale, the people she once idolised, now seem stagnant and backwards. Where does this leave her when she returns to the community she left?

One rainy Sunday evening in the pub where she spent many of her teenage years, Emmy is forced to confront the uncomfortable realities of her hometown.

Inspired by Arnold Wesker’s 1956 play Roots, A Rustle is a piece of new writing touching upon themes of generational difference, rural community and civil disobedience/activism.