Connections 2025: Saba’s Swim

Performed by Central Youth Theatre (Wolverhampton)

Seven months ago, Saba walked out of her GCSE mocks and didn’t come back. Her friends don’t understand why.

Now, on prom night, Saba’s finally made contact, challenging her friends to track her down via a series of cryptic clues. But when the friends are finally reunited, Saba is different. The way she sees the world has changed. And what she’s asking of her friends… is it more than they can give?

Danusia Samal is an actor, writer and jazz singer from London. In 2018 she won the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award for Out of Sorts, which was later shortlisted for the George Devine Award. Her Garage musical Bangers (in which Danusia also stars) sold out at Soho Theatre and the Edinburgh Fringe.

Danusia is also a climate campaigner, founding the Green Rider to cut film and TV pollution.

Screen Writing Credits include: Doing Good (ZDF); Virdee (BBC) Gangs of London S2 & 3 (Sky); Bodies (Netflix). Theatre Writing Credits include: Saba’s Swim (National Theatre Connections); Cinderella (Brixton House); Bangers (Soho/Cardboard Citz/Paines Plough); The Keyworker Cycles (Almeida); Out of Sorts (Theatre503); Busking It (Shoreditch Town Hall/HighTide).