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Wild Swimming
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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.
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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... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- Original Production
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Director's Note
- Epigraph
- The Cast
- The Text
- The Space
- Wild Swimming
- About the Author
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information
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