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“You’re going to drown
And before you drown
You’re going to drown me
And I can’t let you do that, Oscar.”
Nell and Oscar meet on a beach in Dorset. It’s 1595… or maybe 1610 (‘Time is elastic in the theatre’). Oscar has just completed his first year of university, and has returned to his ancient family seat, a scholar-poet in the making. Nell, his neighbour, hasn’t been anywhere, due to the constraints of the times. They will meet here, again and again, on this beach for the next four hundred years. Stuff will change, as it does with time, and they will try to keep up. One of them might manage.
Marek Horn’s play Wild Swimming is a witty interrogation of cultural progress, gender and privilege, and a wilfully ignorant history of English Literature.
Running time: 70 mins (no interval)
Age guidance: 14+
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Marek Horn
Marek Horn is a playwright and screenwriter.
His theatre credits include: OCTOPOLIS (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, 2023); YELLOWFIN (Southwark Playhouse, 2021), WILD SWIMMING (2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Bristol Old Vic and UK tour).
His plays are published by Nick Hern Books.
In television, he has written on RIVALS (Disney+), and THE GIRLFRIEND (Amazon). He was also part of the writing team for the next series of THE NIGHT MANAGER (BBC/Amazon). He is currently in the writers’ room and writing an episode of an upcoming series for Peacock.
He has been a writer on attachment at Bristol Old Vic, the National Theatre Studio, and the RSC. He is a Creator in Residence at BBC Studios, and he is one of the current winners of the Film4/Peggy Ramsay commission, writing a new play for Hampstead Theatre.
His latest radio play, THE MARKOV FILE, for BBC Radio 4, starred Christopher Eccleston and Simon McBurney.
Marek is working on various television and film projects, including THE FOREIGN DESK for Riff Raff Entertainment, and has projects in development with Two Cities, Brightstar, House, the BBC, DNA, and Netflix.
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