{"product_id":"how-i-learned-to-swim-9781350524491","title":"How I Learned to Swim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrieving is weird and expensive.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJamie can't 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 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?' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrilliantly witty, deeply heartfelt, this play explores what lies beneath the surface of the Black diasporic relationship to water. Somebody Jones's searing debut \u003ci\u003eHow I Learned to Swim\u003c\/i\u003e is 'funny with fear, liberating with grief' (\u003ci\u003eFringe Review\u003c\/i\u003e) and impossible to walk away from unchanged. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition was published to coincide with the Prentice Productions show at Summerhall's Roundabout, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2024.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSomebody Jones\u003c\/b\u003e is a Los Angeles native playwright\/dramaturg currently living, working, and dreaming in London. Jones's 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 \u003ci\u003eALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD\u003c\/i\u003e, 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).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50871234035986,"sku":"9781350524491","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fe5e4b13-7972-4100-a6df-2afe112fc8b8.jpg?v=1737829471","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-i-learned-to-swim-9781350524491","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}