Blink: Look but don’t touch.

There’s a quirky and charming love story playing at 59E59 Theaters as part of the Brits Off Broadway festival. Phil Porter’s Blink is worth your time as much for the unusual tale it tells as for the delightful performances of its two actors, Thomas Pickles and Lizzy Watts. At a modest 75 minutes, this comical, sensitively written play satisfies with its clever examination of a pair of sweethearts who love each other better when they’re apart. Shy Jonah (Pickles) enjoys taking apart old-fashioned cameras and dissecting rabbit eyeballs. Equally shy Sophie (Watts) lives in a two-floor London flat with her tax-lawyer father and works at a software company. After her father dies, Sophie loses her job because, according to her employer, she lacks “visibility.” Luckily her father left her a small inheritance and the two-floor flat. When Jonah lets the first floor through a rental agency, Sophie anonymously sends him a remote baby-monitor screen so that he can watch her. At first he has no idea where this mysterious woman lives, but he enjoys watching and she enjoys being watched. Eventually he discovers Sophie’s whereabouts (upstairs), and they begin dating oh so awkwardly until an accident lands Sophie in the emergency room, an event that tests the tenuous bonds of their relationship.