Flying Into Daylight - Ron Hutchinson

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back into quiet, suburban Buckinghamshire; a scene change that couldn’t have been more jarring. Finding it difficult to move back to my daily routine – and with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Don’t Cry for Me Argentina playing on repeat – I created a one-woman show, building on a blog I’d kept whilst away, and relived the moments I had experienced there.

      Just as Tango appeared so swiftly into my life, two years later the story captured the imagination of a writer, Ron Hutchinson, and we began to create a full play from my adventure. Every Argentine Tango dancer, be it a beginner or a world champion, has a personal story to tell of how they came to find this dance, or as in my case, how it found them. Across the globe from Paris to Havana, Siberia to India there are thousands of dancers who discover that once they start learning, it becomes an addiction they cannot stop. Tango is just an improvised set of steps, but it becomes a compulsion that inexplicably grips certain individuals and compels them to travel alone across the world, to spend hundreds of hours in lessons and at social dances (milongas).

      Over the last century Argentine Tango has continued to evolve in style and the number of dancers is constantly increasing, yet there are still very few studies, books or plays on the dance. Flying Into Daylight will be the first of its kind in combining Tango dance and bandoneon music in a theatrical form and it’s thanks to Ron’s magnificent skills as a writer, that having never danced one step of Tango he can express so simply and beautifully Virginia’s journey into that world. The play is not based solely on my experience; it is the passage of so many people also in search of that very human desire for change.

      I am thrilled that this story is receiving its premiere at Live Theatre with a hugely talented cast and creative team and I hope that for a few hours, you too can feel the energy, escapism and vitality of Buenos Aires and Argentine Tango.

       Victoria Fischer

       Original Story

       A Word From Live Theatre’s Artistic Director

      I hadn’t met Ron Hutchinson before this project came about. I’d been aware of his early stage work over here and in the United States but our paths had never crossed until last year when a mutual friend, Eoin O’Callaghan read the first draft of Flying Into Daylight and put us both in touch.

      Eoin made a good call. I read it, loved it and thought we should try and make it happen. The script was beautifully written, based on a true story by Victoria Fischer, cradled within a clever overall metaphor that I found both sensual and life-affirming.

      The exciting possibility of fusing the art form of Tango, with its distinctive choreography and live music seemed to my mind inherently theatrical. It looked a perfect fit for Live Theatre but at the same time like many of our plays, had a universal reach; from Tyneside to London and New York via Newcastle Quayside and the docklands of Buenos Aires.

      In creating this piece we are delighted to welcome back some of our most talented creative associates, Gary McCann as Designer and Malcolm Rippeth as Lighting Designer along with two of the country’s finest exponents of the Tango art form, bandoneonist and composer Julian Rowlands and choreographer Amir Giles who come to Live Theatre for the first time.

      The casting of Summer Strallen and Jos Vantyler completes an ensemble of enormous and glittering talent who, along with our brilliant production team and the entire staff of Live Theatre, aim to give our audiences a great night out in the theatre. And finally not forgetting our Friends of Live Theatre whose support continues to help us do all we do, and whose support we are acknowledging alongside this World Premiere of Flying Into Daylight.

      Thanks to them all. Enjoy.

       Max Roberts

      Co-Director & Artistic Director, Live Theatre

       Cast

      Virginia Summer Strallen

      Marco Jos Vantyler

       Creative & Production Team

      Writer Ron Hutchinson

      Based on an original story by Victoria Fischer

      Directors Ron Hutchinson & Max Roberts

      Music created & performed by Julian Rowlands

      Choreographer Amir Giles

      Designer Gary McCann

      Lighting Designer Malcolm Rippeth

      Sound Designer & Technical Manager David Flynn

      Production Manager Drummond Orr

      Creative Producer Graeme Thompson

      Stage Manager Fiona Kennedy

      Deputy Stage Manager Kate McCheyne

      Technician Sam Stewart

      Creative Apprentice Craig Spence

      Costume Supervisor Lou Duffy

      Assistant Choreographer Tara Pilbrow

      Casting Sooki McShane CDG

      Casting Lucy Jenkins CDG

       For Assisted Performances

      British Sign Language Caroline Ryan

      Captioning Philip Armstrong

      Audio Description & Touch Tour Louise Ainsley

       Thanks

      Naomi Grant, for her advice on Francis Bacon, Miranda Garrison and Leandro Palou for their help with the initial workshop in London, Eoin O’Callaghan, Aaron Davies for use of his photograph for the initial image, Lee Proud and Michelle Percy at Silverlink Holdings.

       CAST

      Virginia Summer Strallen

      Theatre credits include: The Life of the Party –A Celebration of the Songs of Andrew Lippa (Menier Chocolate Factory), Dale Tremont in Top Hat (Aldwych Theatre and National Tour), for which she received her fourth Olivier Award Nomination for 2013 Best Actress in a Musical, Meg Giry in Love Never Dies (Adelphi Theatre), for which she received a 2011 Olivier Award Nomination for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical, Company (Queen’s Theatre) directed by Jamie Lloyd, Paradise Moscow (Opera North) directed by David Pountney, Maria in The Sound of Music (London Palladium), Janet Van Der Graaf in The Drowsy Chaperone (Novello Theatre), for which she received a 2008 Olivier Award Nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, Dick Whittington (Barbican Theatre) directed by Edward Hall, Maisie in The Boyfriend (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park) and received a 2007 Olivier Award Nomination for Best Supporting Role in a Musical, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park), Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly Theatre) directed by Michael Grandage, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium), Cats (New London Theatre and National Tour), Fosse (European Tour), Anything Goes (Grange Park Opera), Scrooge (Dominion Theatre) and The Sound of Music (Sadler’s Wells).

      Television and film credits include: Casualty (BBC), Five-Aside (Emerald Films), Doctors (BBC), The Land Girls (BBC), Hotel Babylon (Carnival Films), Beyond The Sea directed by Kevin Spacey and Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures).

      Workshops include: Marilyn directed by David Grindley and It’s A Wonderful Life.

      Recordings include: Top Hat (Original Cast Album) and Love Never Dies (Concept Album).

      Marco Jos Vantyler

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