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The Dark I Swim

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Young Vic · London · From 8 October

After twenty years poolside, Siby is finally noticed.

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The story

Siby has worked as a lifeguard at the same Cardiff swimming pool for twenty years, living largely inside her own thoughts. Then The Cole walks in and an unexpected connection begins. Rebecca Jade Hammond’s romantic comedy follows two people who feel overwhelmed by their inner lives and the shift that comes when somebody else truly sees them.

In the room

The hour combines blunt comedy with romance and emotional vulnerability, using the swimming-pool setting and drowning imagery to connect work, isolation and attraction.

Good fit if you like

offbeat romantic comedy, lonely characters, workplace settings and emotionally frank humour.

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From 8 Oct 2026
Booking until 8 Oct 2026

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