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Stage review Comic dive into swimming
The Guardian
|August 25, 2025
Comic dive into swimming
His highly physical comedy about two competitive swimmers begins at the beginning – not with a referee’s whistle but a standalone aquatic opus racing through humans’ evolution from fish. In caps, goggles and bathing suits, Alexander Burnett and Ellie Whittaker recount our abiding passion for the water, from the earliest forms of life to Napoleon diving
This story is from the August 25, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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