In many ways, 2006 feels like a long time ago. Pre-credit crash, pre-Brexit, pre-pandemic – a different world. It’s understandable, then, that Shôn Dale-Jones was initially reluctant when he was invited to remount his 2006 show Floating. What can a piece of theatre from that past world say to the tumultuous present day?
Still Floating grapples with that question. One strand of the show revisits Floating, in which Dale-Jones’s theatrical alter-ego Hugh Hughes tells a surreal narrative about the Isle of Anglesey drifting away from – and eventually back to – mainland Britain. This is spliced together with the present, in which Dale-Jones makes a visit to Anglesey – Ynys Môn – the birthplace that he left behind, and questions what it really means to make a home.
