Flight takes Flight in Canada and Colorado this Summer, After a Critics Choice award in San Diego
Flight - the inventive physical theatre work based on the international children's classic The Little Prince, continues to tour - with an expanded ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ-based company. Flight was originally conceived by ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ faculty member Ezra LeBank, and workshopped extensively on campus and in his Long Beach studio. It originally starred LeBank, as well as recent ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ alumni Cynthia Price and Taylor Casas. Using exceptional acro-yoga based shapes, movement, and acrobatics - the trio of performers take audiences on a magical journey in the world of the Little Prince - using not much more than music, words, and movement. The play was a hit at its first Fringe Festival in Edinburgh in 2015, earning a number of festival kudos and critical acclaim. In 2016, Flight journeyed to New York, where it was selected as a Fringe Favorite, and brought back to the east coast at the close of the festival, for a limited off-off Broadway run. This summer - with Christian Sullivan stepping into the role of the Pilot, originated by LeBank, and Kayla Manuel joining the cast as a swing/understudy - Flight was named Best of the Fringe at the San Diego Fringe Festival, and is selling out its houses in Winnipeg, where the show recently received a 5 star review from the Winnipeg Free Press and is selling out their performance venue. Flight is scheduled for a brief run in the Boulder, Colorado area in August. Then the company returns to focus on a new adaptation of Wonderland, part of the 2017-18 Department of Theatre Arts season.
