A man, a plane, a cadaver: pandemonium!
High above the earth, where hunks of metal soar on invisible winds, the very fabric of reality breaks down… When an unidentified body falls impossibly fast from a plane which never existed, one journalist – determined to make sense of it all – resolves to take up the case. When what he finds goes deeper than a single story could, he quickly finds himself picking battle lines in a fight between reason and madness. Stitching up a story from loosely related scenes, Flightpath weaves a tapestry of craziness which might just make sense of the spinning world we live in.
Brace yourselves for Flightpath, a colourful comedy written by James Burke and produced by Brief Palava about humanity’s fascination with the skies.
“Sometimes, in life, you have to trust what you feel and not what you think you should know…”
Brief Palava are a dynamic Glasgow-based theatre collective who share Scotland’s unique theatrical offering on the national and international stage. Having gained renown for their pioneering digital work in the last two years, Flightpath is a welcome return to the punchy, provocative, flexible form that’s been delighting audiences since 2018.
Flightpath came out of a collaboration between writer James Burke and director Tomaž Krajnc. Originally inspired by a macabre story about a stowaway falling from the landing gear of an airplane, it gradually morphed into a series of vignettes which tell the tale of a world gone mad with science, technology and overproduction. But if we take a step back from it all, that craziness dissolves like a ball of spun sugar in water.
Venue: Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, London, SE4 2DH
Box office: www.brockleyjack.co.uk or 0333 666 3366 (£1.80 fee for phone bookings only)
Dates: Tuesday 17 – Saturday 28 May 2022 at 7.30pm.
Tickets: £16, £14 conc., 16+