Wild Swimming
Incredibly f***ing charming
Exeunt
Nell and Oscar meet on a beach in Dorset. It’s 1595… or maybe 1610. Oscar has returned from university and Nell is doing f**k all. They will meet here, again and again, on this beach for the next 400 years. Stuff will change. As it does with time. They will try to keep up.
A kaleidoscopic exploration of cultural progress, Wild Swimming is an interrogation of gender and privilege and a wilfully ignorant history of English Literature.
Recipients of a Ronald Duncan Award and a Pleasance Regional Partnership Award, FullRogue return to Bristol Old Vic with Wild Swimming following its riotous scratch debut as part of Ferment Fortnight in January 2019 and sellout run at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Developed with support from Bristol Ferment
Sarcastic barbs, a puckish spirit and big ideas all merrily co-exist here.
They don’t so much break the fourth wall as smash it to pieces, grind it up and serve it to the audience, alongside snacks
Three Weeks
A genuine gem
UK Theatre Web
Bold, anarchic
Broadway Baby
