MYDIDAE by Jack Thorne

Mydidae, by Bafta award-winning writer Jack Thorne, is a highly controversial and intimate exploration of a relationship between two people staged in a fully plumbed bathroom. Jack Thorne’s delicate style of writing beautifully explores the truth and tension of modern-day realities.

The work opens at a poignant milestone in a young couple’s life, the first anniversary of a shared personal tragedy; David and Marian’s different perspectives of the event and their conflicting views test the relationship and force brutal realities into the forefront of their consciousness. The clinical intimacy of the bathroom offers an exposing, inescapable and undeniably human terrain, looking at how emotions make us act and react.

Studying the complexities of human relationships, Mydidae explores how loss and pain can mutate into blame and guilt and how, sometimes, those closest to us can provoke the most painful feelings of all. Some subjects are inescapable though and while we hide from past fears, Mydidae shows that they catch up with us and reveal personal complexities within our characters that we never realised existed. A sense of mystery and ambiguity throughout Mydidae leaves David and Marian exposed and vulnerable.

Mydidae has been commissioned by DryWrite as their first full-length play. The work resonates strongly with DryWrite exploring, as it does, the intimacy between audience and characters, our need for understanding, humour, tragedy and real situations.

It is a play for women, it is a play for men and it is a play for anyone who has ever shared a bath.

This performance includes full frontal nudity and is 15+.