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Wild Swimming (NHB Modern Plays)

Name: Wild Swimming (NHB Modern Plays)
Author: Marek Horn

Marek Horn,

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Wild Swimming (NHB Modern Plays)

Marek Horn,

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Nell and Oscar meet on a beach in Dorset. It's 1595… or maybe 1610. Oscar has returned from university and Nell is doing fuck-all. They will meet here, again and again, on this beach for the next four hundred years. Stuff will change. As it does with time. They will try to keep up.

A kaleidoscopic exploration of cultural progress, Marek Horn's play Wild Swimming is an interrogation of gender and privilege, and a wilfully ignorant history of English Literature.

The play premiered at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, produced by FullRogue in association with Pleasance Futures and Bristol Old Vic Ferment, and directed by Julia Head. It subsequently transferred to the Bristol Old Vic, and toured the UK in 2020.

'Deliciously immodest, formally inventive and searingly clever' - Guardian

'Sarcastic barbs, a puckish spirit and big ideas all merrily co-exist here' - The Stage

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Publisher

Nick Hern Books

Year

2019

ISBN

9781788502580

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

British Drama

Index

Literature

One – A Break of Play

Chaos

There is chaos now

There is loud music¹

There is shouting

There is running

There is a game being played

There are snacks – energy! Take on energy! Calories! Additives!

This whole thing is an additive

It’s Monster Munch and Pepsi Max

You CRAVE something substantial

You want an apple but you can’t have one

You bite an apple but the apple’s made of SHERBET

Quick! The song is going to END

Quick! The scene is going to START

OSCAR! Get naked

OSCAR! Get wet²

OSCAR! Ignore NELL

NELL! Ignore OSCAR

NELL! Eat snacks

Be cool NELL

Be cool

NELL you look so fucking cool I could eat you

I could EAT you NELL!

I could EAT YOUR WHOLE VIBE

YOU are an apple made of SHERBET

Two – A Scene

Bright cold sunshine, waves crashing, seagulls crying

OSCAR enters. He is naked or ‘Naked’(?) and cold, certainly cold. He’s been swimming. He’s exhausted, half-drowned? He heads towards his clothes where he collapses to the ground, eyes closed against the glare of the sun, focusing on his breathing. NELL enters unseen. She stands over him. Silence

NELL

H...

Cover
Title page
Contents
Original Production
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Director's Note
Epigraph
The Cast
The Text
The Space
Wild Swimming
About the Author
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