Swimming once a day is challenging enough for most swimmers. The state meet, however, calls for the top swimmers to do it ...

Breaststroke is often considered one of the most technical swimming styles, mainly due to its unique sequence of movements. The key mnemonic here is easy to remember: 'Separation of hands, pressing ...

Clutching her flowers on the top of the podium, Sarah Rodrigues couldn’t hold back her tears. In that moment, reality began to sank in. This was her last high school race. The end of one of the ...

It’s almost like a superpower, the way Angelina Huang propels herself underwater, springing off the walls during a backstroke race. Highland Park swimming coach Jason Pullano witnessed it most ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Backstroke is, of course, the ingenious art of propelling yourself forwards by moving backwards.

A star rating of 4 out of 5. You won’t be surprised to learn that Backstroke is an extremely sad play. What you may be surprised to learn is that it’s funny, too. Friday Night Dinner's Tamsin ...

The chance to see Celia Imrie and Tamsin Greig on stage together – and up close at the 250-seat Donmar too – has meant that tickets are scarce for Backstroke, despite Anna Mackmin’s play ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Read our review of Anna Mackmin's new play Backstroke, now in performances at the Donmar Warehouse to 12 April. Celia Imrie and Tamsin Greig bring a sparking yin-yang energy to Anna Mackmin’s play ...

But Mackmin doesn’t do enough to link images. Backstroke wants to map how the tendrils of Beth’s failure as a mother dig their fingers across generations. But Bo’s failure as a mother is not ...

This hospital-deathbed play written and directed by Anna Mackmin is the opposite of a good night out, even though two gifted and much-loved actresses take the leads. Celia Imrie is Beth, a vain ...