The Swell

Name: The Swell
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781350438835
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By Isley Lynn

Series: Modern Plays

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The Swell is a gripping romantic drama by Isley Lynn, exploring the complexities of love, sacrifice, and betrayal across decades. Annie, on the brink of marrying her beloved Bel, faces turmoil when her free-spirited old friend Flo unexpectedly arrives, sparking a love triangle with dangerous consequences that threaten Annie's dreams of a Happily Ever After.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary plays, romantic drama, and stories of complex relationships. Fans of award-winning theatre and rich character-driven narratives will find this a compelling read.

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Winner of the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright 2023
Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre at the Olivier Awards 2024

You need to meet the other special people. There are so many of us. You’ll fall in love every day.

Annie is happy at last – she’s engaged to Bel, the love of her life, and counting down the days to their wedding. But then old friend, free spirit, and troublemaker Flo turns up unexpectedly, and announces she’ll be staying with them until the big day. Their surprise reunion turns into a complicated love triangle with dangerous consequences that threaten to destroy Annie’s Happily Ever After...

Isley Lynn's thrilling romantic drama The Swell is a gripping story spanning decades of love, sacrifice and betrayal, which was shortlisted for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in June 2023.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350438835

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Methuen Drama

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 107g

Pages: 88

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Arts & Culture Isley Lynn Non-Fiction Series: Modern Plays

About the Author

Isley Lynn’s play Skin a Cat was awarded Pick of the Year at the Vault Festival 2016 and its production at The Bunker later that year led to four nominations for Off West End Awards including Most Promising New Playwright and Best New Play; it then toured nationally in 2018. Other credits include: The War of the Worlds (New Diorama Theatre 2019, international tour 2021); ‘Canace’ in 15 Heroines (Jermyn Street Theatre 2020); Albatross (Paines Plough and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama at Bute Theatre and Gate Theatre 2018); The Swell (HighTide First Commissions play reading 2018); Sie und Wir (Us and Them) for Werk X in Vienna (2016); Tether (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015); and What’s So Special (as part of The Get Out at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs 2014). Her play Bright Nights was a Script6 winner at The Space in 2014. Isley was a finalist for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Playwriting.