Stage: The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk & Adam

Every new production from the acclaimed Kneehigh Theatre company is greeted with excitements and anticipation. Their approach to staging and reinventing classic stories is faultless, adventurous, thought-provoking and entertaining too. This is fearless theatre-making for a modern generation and in the past productions like Brief Encounter, Tristan and Yseult and Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca have been showered with praise – quite rightly so. So the arrival of The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk is creating an equal stir amongs lovers of great theatre – but who are these lovers and why do they fly?

It’s time to meet Marc and Bella Chagall! They are the Flying Lovers of Vitebsk! Partners in life and on canvas, Marc and Bella are immortalised as the picture of romance. But whilst on canvas they flew, in life they walked through some of the most devastating times in history.

Daniel Jamieson’s The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk traces this young couple as they navigate the Pogroms, the Russian Revolution, and each other. Emma Rice’s final production as Kneehigh’s Artistic Director is drawn in a theatrical language as fluid as Chagall’s paintings, and woven throughout with music and dance inspired by the Russian Jewish tradition.

9 – 11 May, 8pm, 12 May, 2.30pm & 8pm, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts

Also this week
Adam
Adam is National Theatre of Scotland’s remarkable production about one trans man’s powerful true story.

If you are born in a country where being yourself can get you killed, exile is your only choice. Adam is the true story of a young transgender man having to make that choice and begin his journey.

An extraordinary multimedia production, Adam features a stunning score composed by Olivier award-winner Jocelyn Pook (Eyes Wide Shut, Gangs Of New York) sung by a virtual choir of trans and non-binary individuals from around the world.

9–12 May, Wed–Fri 8pm, Sat 7pm
Theatre Royal Brighton