FLIGHT
Presented by DARKFIELD
“Ladies and gentlemen, we’d like to direct your attention to the on-board safety demonstration and ask that for the next twenty minutes you give us your full attention. In the unlikely event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure alternative scenarios will be provided. Next of kin will be provided”
The many worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics proposes that every time there is more than one possible outcome, all of them occur. Countless worlds of varying similarity where anything that can happen is already happening.
Maybe there is some comfort in knowing that however ill advised your choices have been - there is a version of you who made better ones and is suffering from less regret and embarrassment
‘Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return’ - Leonardo da Vinci
Cast: Nigel Barrett and Eugénie Pastor
Thanks to: Matilda Bailey, Taragh Bissett, Tim Blazdel, Adam Burton, Melissa Chambers, Yeonsoo Cho, Kirsty Clark, Jamie Dorward, Nic Frank, Gabrielle Gillott, Caroline Gray, Pezhvok Joshigani, Laura Korycka, Siobhan Massey, Beverley Matthews, Calum Mercer, Manna Mostaghim, Alexander Mugnaioni, Alex Neumayer, Helen Paszyn, Kathryn Pearson, Siria Rutstein, Juan Salazar, Becky-Dee Trevenen, Charlie Vickers-Willis, Davis Vilcans, Emily Walters, Emma Wood, Lisa Worthington, Aidan Yorath, Beth Yorath
Cast (Korean language): J Sebastian Lee and Sunny Yeo
Thanks to: Dawon Jeng, Jeong Mi Jeong, Seung Mann Kang, Chloe Koko, Juno Min, Annaleta K, Sung woo Cho, Yujin Han
Special thanks to: Sun Park
Cast (Mandarin language): Oliver Zheng and Mary Wallin
Thanks to: Bo Wang, Tianyi Kiy, Gang Chi, Echo Peng, Tao Guo, Susan Shi, Tao Deng, Youyangg Song, Yan Shi
Special thanks to: Bonnie Chan
Cast (Arabic language): Fahad Alzamil and Lina Shaikhouni
Thanks to: Khalid Alsudayri, Omar Othman Alodhib, Mohammad Attar, Romel Raheed, Hassan Attar, Farid Fatmi, Malak Bellal, Zohra Laaraba and Abdul Alshareef
Special thanks to: Sarah Hosney and Susa Dietz
Creators: David Rosenberg & Glen Neath
Producers: Andrea Salazar & Victoria Eyton
Production & Finance Assistant: Sara Codrington
Production Manager: Cecily Rabey
Technical Manager: Calum Mercer
Technical Designer: George Tomlinson
Lighting Associate: Sarah Readman
Technician & Automation: Ian Moore
Performances:
Latitude Festival, Henham Park, Southwold, Sussex, 13-15 July 2018
Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 1-26 August 2018
Dartington, Totnes, Devon, 21 November - 2 December 2018
Vault Festival, London, 20-27 February 2019
Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide (Australian premiere), 15 February - 17 March 2019
Canary Wharf Montgomery Square, 16-21 September 2019
Reddacliff Place, Brisbane, Australia, 19 September - 5 October 2019
Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, 27 September - 7 October 2019
Queensbridge Square, Melbourne, Australia, 30 October - 8 December 2019
Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne, Australia, 11 December - 8 January 2020
Perth, Australia, 17 January - 16 February 2020
Nottingham Festival of Science & Curiosity, Lakeside Arts, UK, 15-23 February 2020
Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide, 20 February - 15 March 2020
Lewis Cubitt Square, King’s Cross, London, UK, 8 February - 22 March 2020
Mandurah, Australia, 4-20 December 2020
Perth Festival, Australia, 15 January - 14 February 2021
Adelaide Festival, Australia, 19 February - 21 March 2021
Wooran Foundation, South Korea (South Korean premiere), 26 March - 12 April 2021
Perth Cultural Centre, Australia, 20 May - 20 June 2021
Wooran Foundation, South Korea, 1-13 June 2021
CDE, Shanghai, China (Mandarin language premiere), 20 November - 30 December 2021
Wooran Foundation, South Korea, December 2021 & 14-30 January 2022
Perth, Australia, 14 January - 13 February 2022
Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide, 18 February - 22 March 2022
Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia, 26 May - 18 September 2022
Arts District, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 28 July - 20 November 2022
Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK, 3-28 August 2022
Warner Bros’ Movie World, Gold Coast, Australia, 1-31 October 2022
Montgomery Square, Canary Wharf, London, 13-23 October 2022
LG Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea (Korean language premiere), 22 October - 19 November 2022
Llais 22, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Wales, 27 October - 6 November 2022
Sunset Terminal, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Taiwanese Mandarin language premiere), 11 November 2022 - 15 October 2023
Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia, 16 December 2022 - 5 February 2023
Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide, Australia, 17 February - 19 March 2023
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia, 13 April - 2 July 2023
City Walk, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Arabic language premiere), 24 April - 7 June 2023
Didsbury Arts Festival, UK, 24 June - 2 July 2023
‘What Rosenberg and Neath do with Flight is to harness the very uncertainty of pretending, and in doing so create an experience that’s properly exhilarating. It’s a perfectly programmed high-art theme park ride, a reminder of one’s closeness at all times to death that spits you out into the sunlight feeling palpably, certainly, alive’ - Ben Kulvichit, Exeunt Magazine
‘It’s a truly singular and provocative piece of art’ - Evan Popplestone, Cinema’s Fringes ★★★★★
‘One can only hope that this is the future of all live entertainment’ - Siri Hedreen, EdFest Magazine ★★★★★
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Click here for interview with David Rosenberg in The Skinny
Click here for interview with Glen Neath at J. Walter Thompson Intelligence
Photo by Mihaela Bodlovic
Co-commissioned by Latitude Festival, Dartington Arts and Realscape Productions
Funded by Arts Council England
