Described by Jones herself as ‘a comedy about despair’ Airswimming conjures warmth and hilarity from the most desperate of situations.
Dora and Persephone – who somewhere along the play’s non-linear narrative become Dorph and Porph – are incarcerated in an institution for the criminally insane.
They arrive in the 1920s, at the hands of families who immediately forget them, and are not released for over 50 years.