Dyl

- Do you have to hold your breath? ... Can you do that?
- Yeah. Anyone can.
- Not me. Can’t be doing without breath. I’d hate to drown. I’m a big fan of air ... I’d rather drown in my own troubles.

According to his own definition of fatherhood, James became a man at 22. Which was almost too much for him to bear. Now he’s been told that if he just disappears for a bit, eventually things might calm down.

400 miles from home, he has a new career as a rigger - two weeks onshore, two weeks offshore. James exists between two very different spaces and his daughter, Dyl, is with him in neither of them. Instead he has Ryan, his live-in landlord - sarcastic, free-spirited and liable to say what he thinks before he thinks what he’s saying. As James focuses on finding the answers from within himself, he risks the very relationships that can keep him on track.

A sad comedy, which explores what it actually means to become a man - and whether that man can shoulder life’s responsibilities. Dyl is a play about isolation and the righting of wrongs and parenthood. It received its world premiere on 2 May 2017 at the Old Red Lion Theatre, London.