Isley Lynn for The Swell – Winner of the Charles Wintour award for Most Promising Playwright, Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2023
★★★★★ “Director Hannah Hauer-King is perfectly in sync with Lynn’s writing” Lost In Theatreland
★★★★★ “Their voices harmonised beautifully” Fairy Powered Productions
★★★★ “The best piece of new writing in London” The Arts Desk
★★★★ “A meditation on love and betrayal that’ll leave you wanting more” The Evening Standard
★★★★ “A gasp-inducing love-triangle mystery” The Guardian
★★★★ “Super smart and beautifully tender” The Stage
★★★★“This sharp and bold play will keep you on the edge of your seat” The Artiscape
Counting down the days to their wedding, Annie and her fiancé Bel are visited by an unexpected guest. An old friend of Annie’s: free spirit and troublemaker Flo, who announces she’ll be staying with them until their big day.
This surprise reunion evolves into a complicated love triangle with dangerous consequences that threaten to destroy Annie and Bel’s happily ever after…
Hannah Hauer-King directs Jessica Clark (The Wife of Willesden, Kiln Theatre), Ruby Crepin-Glyne (The Tempest, Pleasance), Viss Elliot Safavi (For Services Rendered, Jermyn Street Theatre), Saroja-Lily Ratnavel (Chasing Hares, Young Vic), Shuna Snow (The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs, Soho Theatre) and Sophie Ward (Young Sherlock Holmes).
A co-production with the Women’s Prize for Playwrighting and Damsel Productions.
Production photo by Ali Wright
Cast
Jessica Clark
Ruby Crepin-Glyne
Viss Elliot Safavi
Saroja-Lily Ratnavel
Shuna Snow
Sophie Ward
