About This Show

Set in 1920’s England, Charlotte Jones’s AIRSWIMMING is based on the true story of two women (Miss Kitson and Miss Baker), who have been incarcerated in a hospital for the “criminally insane” for having borne illegitimate children. Forgotten by their families and not released until the 1970’s, Dora and Persephone adopt alter-egos, Dorph and Porph, to enact their fantasies and survive the silence of incarceration.

Show Details

Running Time: 1hr 15min (0 intermissions)
Dates: Opening Night: January 13, 2013 Final Performance: February 17, 2013

Theatermania Review

| | January 14, 2013
Questions of sanity and self-preservation make Irish Repertory Theatre’s two-hander a thoughtful drama worth wrapping your head around.

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