Dyl - By Mark Weinman

'I saw whales from my room last week. Mother and her calf. And the Dad...he wasn't trying to eat them...he was just getting to know them. More than he already did. Isn't that what a relationship is? There's no end product. You can always grow it more. By knowing more.'

James has been told that if he just disappears for a bit, eventually things will calm down.

Two weeks onshore, two weeks offshore. James exists between two very different spaces and Dyl is not with him in either of them.

What does it actually mean to become a Man? And can that man shoulder life's responsibilities?

A play about isolation, the righting of wrongs and Parenthood.

'Dylis an intelligent, surprising and heartfelt play, as funny as it is moving. Mark explores not only what it means to be a man in the contemporary sense, but also what it means to have real responsibility and how someone faces up to these. It is one of the best plays about family, in particular fatherhood, that I have read in recent times and I hope it makes you both laugh and cry as it did me.'
Clive Judd - ORL Literary Manager