How To Fly and Other Useful Skills
This devised production was created over a six day creative residency in January 2014 with students at Bishops Stortford College.
Performed 28th & 29th January 2014
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With help from Rough Fiction, The Lower 5th Company at Bishops Stortford College throw themselves headlong into what it means to be heroic in today’s world. Sometimes fantastical, and sometimes everyday; we have created a brand new 30-minute piece of physical theatre in just six days.
How to Fly and Other Useful Skills is a fragmented exploration what ‘heroism’ really means. We have been discovering our super powers, what we believe in, what we stand for, what we care about and what it truly means to be brave in 2014. We’ve been training, sweating, writing, talking and playing together; muscles are aching, our arms are slightly bigger and we’ve got too many blisters.
Directed and designed for Rough Fiction by Helen Millar & Simon Pittman with assistant practitioner Beno Smith
Company: Bethany Murphy, Imogen Poulter, Jack Lucas, Ryan Land, Ben Stevenson, Tom Thacker, Bryn Richards, Hettie Jones-Chapman, Caitlin Mahoney, Adam Cawthray Stern, Poppy Brooks, Lucy Buckingham, Lulu Simpson, Amelia Maszlin, Sophia Kedadi, Ned Smith, Lily Lewin, Rachel Cunningham, Victoria Lynch, and Lewis Turner-Fisk.
Images: Ian Taylor 2014.