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Flyaway Theatre is a company dedicated to the creation of exciting, innovative and moving new writing. Since its establishment in 2009 it has steadily gained a reputation for presenting stories that are both beautifully crafted but also deeply personal and insightful.
This year, Flyaway is taking its first children's show, 'The Rabbit and the Rose', to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The performance will take place:
12th-17th, 19th August 2012
15:55-16:45
International 3 at Sweet Grassmarket
Tickets are £8, £5 (concession) and £20 (family - two adults and two children).
This year, Flyaway is taking its first children's show, 'The Rabbit and the Rose', to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The performance will take place:
12th-17th, 19th August 2012
15:55-16:45
International 3 at Sweet Grassmarket
Tickets are £8, £5 (concession) and £20 (family - two adults and two children).
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Tickets are available from the official Edinburgh Fringe website (click here) or directly from the venue during performance days.
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The company is made up of members from all over the United Kingdom, with a wealth of talent and experience that encompasses acting, writing, directing, choreography, production, stage management, and technical design. Under the direction of the company's founding members Heather Wilmot and Shona Jemphrey, Flyaway strives to nurture new talent and develop fresh, inventive productions with a visually stunning style that has become a well-recognized signature.
'Howling Moon' (written by Heather Wilmot) was the company's début production. Its initial run at York proved to be a triumph, drawing in sell-out audiences and generating an overwhelmingly positive critical response. Building on this success, Flyaway took it to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2011 with C Venues, where it gathered more positive reviews and made a definite impact on the Mile with its distinct visual style. In May 2011, Flyaway also produced another Wilmot script, the highly anticipated 'Knightingale', which received rave reviews and served to explore new ground within the company without losing its trademarks of being fresh and challenging, visually impressive, and deeply insightful.
Continuing from its past successes, Flyaway intends to build on the Fringe recognition it created last year by extending its repertoire in new and exciting ways with its first children's show. 'The Rabbit and the Rose' has been adapted from part of the original 'Howling Moon' script which, for timing reasons, did not make it into last year's Fringe production. It combines traditional fairytale elements with charming and intriguing ensemble acting as well as live music and deeper questions about love and pain and life.
'Howling Moon' (written by Heather Wilmot) was the company's début production. Its initial run at York proved to be a triumph, drawing in sell-out audiences and generating an overwhelmingly positive critical response. Building on this success, Flyaway took it to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2011 with C Venues, where it gathered more positive reviews and made a definite impact on the Mile with its distinct visual style. In May 2011, Flyaway also produced another Wilmot script, the highly anticipated 'Knightingale', which received rave reviews and served to explore new ground within the company without losing its trademarks of being fresh and challenging, visually impressive, and deeply insightful.
Continuing from its past successes, Flyaway intends to build on the Fringe recognition it created last year by extending its repertoire in new and exciting ways with its first children's show. 'The Rabbit and the Rose' has been adapted from part of the original 'Howling Moon' script which, for timing reasons, did not make it into last year's Fringe production. It combines traditional fairytale elements with charming and intriguing ensemble acting as well as live music and deeper questions about love and pain and life.
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This year, we're taking our first family show - 'The Rabbit and the Rose' - up to the Edinburgh Fringe from the 12th to the 19th of August with Sweet Venues. It's based on a fairytale which was part of the first production of 'Howling Moon', but which had to be cut from last year's Fringe version for reasons of length. We're delighted to be able to bring it back out of storage and give it the attention and development we feel it deserves. The story itself has been extended and new characters have been introduced as we explore the themes it presents in greater depth. As well as making the show enjoyable, and entertaining, and very very funny in places, it's also going to address the real, everyday issues that different relationships face - not to mention the big things such as pain, truth, and music. We intend the show to be accessible, entertaining, and thought-provoking for all ages, as well as one that adults will enjoy just as much as children.
Our dedicated production team have been working on this since January. Cast members, musicians, and designers have been found, the script is being finalised, we're working closely with the very lovely and very helpful team at Sweet Venues, and the publicity teams are swinging into action. Rehearsals will be happening in York in just a couple of weeks in what will probably turn out to be an intense but fun session!
Our dedicated production team have been working on this since January. Cast members, musicians, and designers have been found, the script is being finalised, we're working closely with the very lovely and very helpful team at Sweet Venues, and the publicity teams are swinging into action. Rehearsals will be happening in York in just a couple of weeks in what will probably turn out to be an intense but fun session!
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HOWLING MOON
Blood, fur, teeth and earth. Feathers, tears, leaves and stars. Running far away. Maggie fell asleep in her bed but woke up in a dark forest full of crying trees. Her only hope of escape seems to be a charismatic joker known as the Fox. He styles himself as her protector and shows her what could be the way out - the shining trail of footprints she left as she ran into the woods. If they can follow them before they disappear maybe everything will be alright. However she is being hunted by the Wolf who has other ideas - not to mention the family of schizophrenic magpies. Sorrow-Joy, Girl-Boy, Silver-Gold and Secret have a message for Maggie concerning the huge storm clouds gathering over the trees. Will the storm break? What does the Wolf really want from her? And what lies buried beneath the forest floor? Combining original music, dance, and powerful character acting this is a raw, uplifting and transportive story about coming to terms with being cured. Sharpen your claws and come into the forest. These are our tracks.
(All photographs by Greg Ebdon. Publicity designs by Sion Clarke.)
HOWLING MOON (June 2010)
"Howling Moon" was the company's first production and a huge exciting learning curve for everyone involved. From carpeting an entire stage in real turf, to learning how exactly to portray a fox's face through facepaint, to working out what a mushroom's costume would look like, to teaching trees how to dance - the challenges we faced were many, varied, and wonderful.
“Heather Wilmot’s script is at time brilliantly funny, and at others heart-wrenchingly sad … 'Howling Moon' somehow succeeds in everything it sets out to do. It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you smile, it makes you pine, and it takes you on one long rollercoaster journey.”
(York Vision)
“I urge you to go see 'Howling Moon' … If the performance affects you anything like it did me you’ll want to sit around and think about this thing for the rest of the night ... At its heart is a playwright with huge promise and a cast and crew full of love for their work.”>
(Nouse, ****)
HOWLING MOON (August 2011)
Following the local success of 'Howling Moon' in York, we decided to take it to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In a burnt out room in C soco, we constructed a forest out of fabric, fake grass, and real trees, decorated by beautiful glowing fairy-light footprints, and kept it there for the entire month. There, we made a distinct visual impact on the Festival hub of the Royal Mile with our eye-catching costumes, dancing trees, and towering mushroom! The production also attracted even more fans and gathered even more rave reviews.
“ 'Howling Moon' tells a powerful and symbolic tale of moving on and letting go, of losing and finding oneself … This is a valuable story, rich in ideas, full of meaning and emotion, delivered 110% by a committed cast … There's something epic and special here in the making … Definitely worth seeing.”
(Fringe Review, Recommended Show)
“Fairytales grow up – they grow deeper, darker and stronger. … A dreamlike world is created under Soco's flaky ceiling by an earnest cast who take the idea of physical theatre and use it tastefully, but not so that it should scare away fans of traditional theatre. … Strange and beautiful, touching and magical.”
(ThreeWeeks, ****)
KNIGHTINGALE (May 2011)
A struggling cocktail bar is invaded by four suited men claiming to be reincarnations of the Arthurian Knights. To the bereaved, broke and broken-hearted staff they bring a message of hope: there is no such thing as goodbye and dead kingdoms can be revived. Claiming Orson, the cleaner, as their king, they attempt to transform the real world. But are they ready for how the real world will transform them? Can anyone really escape goodbye? (Photographs by Greg Ebdon. Poster designs by Heather Wilmot and Tom Crowley.)
Involving suits, blues, rainbows of cocktails, a loan shark and more confetti than could be cleaned up afterwards, this play gently addressed the themes of friendship, loss, grief, and moving on. The result was a funny, moving, and ultimately poignant look at what it really means to say goodbye.
“Heather Wilmot should be commended for the cleverness, but more importantly the storytelling and emotive power, of her play as well as direction which produced some notable performances … Knightingale is an ambitious idea handled well – a fantastical premise ultimately grounded in a reality to which we can all relate. Not to be missed.”
(Nouse, ****)
“...a successful piece of original writing. With characters to love and hate, a plot that ties together nicely and a formidable cast, Knightingale is one to catch this weekend.”
(York Vision)
Blood, fur, teeth and earth. Feathers, tears, leaves and stars. Running far away. Maggie fell asleep in her bed but woke up in a dark forest full of crying trees. Her only hope of escape seems to be a charismatic joker known as the Fox. He styles himself as her protector and shows her what could be the way out - the shining trail of footprints she left as she ran into the woods. If they can follow them before they disappear maybe everything will be alright. However she is being hunted by the Wolf who has other ideas - not to mention the family of schizophrenic magpies. Sorrow-Joy, Girl-Boy, Silver-Gold and Secret have a message for Maggie concerning the huge storm clouds gathering over the trees. Will the storm break? What does the Wolf really want from her? And what lies buried beneath the forest floor? Combining original music, dance, and powerful character acting this is a raw, uplifting and transportive story about coming to terms with being cured. Sharpen your claws and come into the forest. These are our tracks.
(All photographs by Greg Ebdon. Publicity designs by Sion Clarke.)
HOWLING MOON (June 2010)
"Howling Moon" was the company's first production and a huge exciting learning curve for everyone involved. From carpeting an entire stage in real turf, to learning how exactly to portray a fox's face through facepaint, to working out what a mushroom's costume would look like, to teaching trees how to dance - the challenges we faced were many, varied, and wonderful.
“Heather Wilmot’s script is at time brilliantly funny, and at others heart-wrenchingly sad … 'Howling Moon' somehow succeeds in everything it sets out to do. It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you smile, it makes you pine, and it takes you on one long rollercoaster journey.”
(York Vision)
“I urge you to go see 'Howling Moon' … If the performance affects you anything like it did me you’ll want to sit around and think about this thing for the rest of the night ... At its heart is a playwright with huge promise and a cast and crew full of love for their work.”>
(Nouse, ****)
HOWLING MOON (August 2011)
Following the local success of 'Howling Moon' in York, we decided to take it to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In a burnt out room in C soco, we constructed a forest out of fabric, fake grass, and real trees, decorated by beautiful glowing fairy-light footprints, and kept it there for the entire month. There, we made a distinct visual impact on the Festival hub of the Royal Mile with our eye-catching costumes, dancing trees, and towering mushroom! The production also attracted even more fans and gathered even more rave reviews.
“ 'Howling Moon' tells a powerful and symbolic tale of moving on and letting go, of losing and finding oneself … This is a valuable story, rich in ideas, full of meaning and emotion, delivered 110% by a committed cast … There's something epic and special here in the making … Definitely worth seeing.”
(Fringe Review, Recommended Show)
“Fairytales grow up – they grow deeper, darker and stronger. … A dreamlike world is created under Soco's flaky ceiling by an earnest cast who take the idea of physical theatre and use it tastefully, but not so that it should scare away fans of traditional theatre. … Strange and beautiful, touching and magical.”
(ThreeWeeks, ****)
KNIGHTINGALE (May 2011)
A struggling cocktail bar is invaded by four suited men claiming to be reincarnations of the Arthurian Knights. To the bereaved, broke and broken-hearted staff they bring a message of hope: there is no such thing as goodbye and dead kingdoms can be revived. Claiming Orson, the cleaner, as their king, they attempt to transform the real world. But are they ready for how the real world will transform them? Can anyone really escape goodbye? (Photographs by Greg Ebdon. Poster designs by Heather Wilmot and Tom Crowley.)
Involving suits, blues, rainbows of cocktails, a loan shark and more confetti than could be cleaned up afterwards, this play gently addressed the themes of friendship, loss, grief, and moving on. The result was a funny, moving, and ultimately poignant look at what it really means to say goodbye.
“Heather Wilmot should be commended for the cleverness, but more importantly the storytelling and emotive power, of her play as well as direction which produced some notable performances … Knightingale is an ambitious idea handled well – a fantastical premise ultimately grounded in a reality to which we can all relate. Not to be missed.”
(Nouse, ****)
“...a successful piece of original writing. With characters to love and hate, a plot that ties together nicely and a formidable cast, Knightingale is one to catch this weekend.”
(York Vision)