Breach Theatre follows up The Beanfield with Tank, which runs for three nights at HOME in Manchester from May 4 to 6, after four-star reviews at last year’s Edinburgh Festival.
In 1965, an American scientist lived with a dolphin for 10 weeks to try and teach him to speak English.
Condemned as an elaborate circus trick, it remain a highly-controversial episode in the arms race between two superpowers at the height of the Cold War.
Breach’s Tank rips history apart to explore the difficulties of bridging cultural divides, the politics behind the stories we tell and what happens when you inject a dolphin with LSD.