Overview

My mam's always saying, the best thing to do with new things is just chuck yourself in at the deep end.

Liam is fifteen and he's just signed up for Bev Road Baths' first ever synchronised swimming team. It's for his best mate Caz really. She needs to get a team together to win the annual Project Prize at school. She tries every year. She always loses. But Liam's an optimist, he's determined to help. There's just one problem. Liam can't swim...

A heartwarming comedy about swimming against the tide, Drip is a one-man musical comedy by award-winning duo Tom Wells and Matthew Robins.

Drip was first seen as part of the Back to Ours programme for Hull UK City of Culture 2017. The play subsequently toured the UK in 2018, including runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Bush Theatre, London.

Tom Wells' other plays include Broken Biscuits, Folk, Jumpers for Goalposts and The Kitchen Sink (winner of the 2012 George Devine Award and the Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright).