FLIGHT
New York Premiere
March 23 - April 11, 2011
Creative Team
- Conceived, directed by Steve Pearson
- Text by Robyn Hunt
- Costume design by Lisa Martin-Stuart
- Lighting design by Jeremy Winchester
- Sound design by Walter Clissen
- Asst direction, dramaturgy by Brian Hanscom
Performers
- Robyn Hunt
- Lee Fitzpatrick
- Jen Burry
- William Shuler
- Eric Bultman
History of FLIGHT
FLIGHT is the third in a trilogy of full-length productions by Ms. Hunt and Mr. Pearson inspired by Anton Chekhov’s plays that integrate art, history, and science with powerful, physically demanding performance. Begun in 1999, the first of the trilogy was BALANCE, a whimsical look at THE THREE SISTERS, time, Samuel Beckett’s work, and the Oxford English Dictionary (Seattle 2003). The second was GRAVITY, a more serious interweaving of THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Diaghilev and the Ballet Russe, Einstein’s work on relativity and gravity, and the great Paris flood of 1910 (Seattle 2004, and New York at The Connelly Theater 2007). FLIGHT now makes its New York debut following initial workshop performances at University of South Carolina’s Center of Performance Experiment in November 2009, and performances this past May 2010 at Columbia, South Carolina’s Longstreet Theatre.