The Swell

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.