Shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024Grieving is weird and expensive. Jamie cant swim. Fuelled by guilt and a need to mend her broken family, at 30 years old, she's taking on her biggest fear the ocean. With the help of a chipper swim instructor, a shady spiritual guide, and one cathartic crab sandwich, she questions, 'How many lengths does it take to wash away regret?' Brilliantly witty, deeply heartfelt, this play explores what lies beneath the surface of the Black diasporic relationship to water. Somebody Joness searing debut How I Learned to Swim is 'funny with fear, liberating with grief' (Fringe Review) and impossible to walk away from unchanged. This edition was published to coincide with the Prentice Productions show at Summerhalls Roundabout, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2024.
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Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 01 Aug 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781350524491
About Somebody Jones
Somebody Jones is a Los Angeles native playwright/dramaturg currently living working and dreaming in London. Joness work celebrates and champions Black culture in all of its charms and complexities. The playwright primarily works within the genres of horror magical realism verbatim and recently Black fantasy. Somebody Jones was Paines Plough's Playwright Fellow in 2024 won the Tony Craze Award in 2023 for her play ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD and was shortlisted for the George Devine Award in 2023. Formerly Somebody was a part of Soho Theatre's Writers' Lab (London 2022) an Artistic Associate with Nouveau Riche (London 2022) a Creative Associate at Jermyn Street Theatre (London 2021) and a part of Boston Court's first Playwrights' Group (Los Angeles 2021).