"Flight"

Jen Burry, one of our favorite actresses is in a new stage production and we encourage our NY people to go check it out. Jen was cast in Kent Sutton's upcoming feature film Miranda.

Time/Location:

March 23- April 10 Tues.-Sat. 8pm Sun. 3pm Tickets: 212.868.4444 The Connelly Theatre 220 East. 4th St. NYC

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FLIGHT

A new work conceived and directed by international director/actor Steven Pearson and written by Robyn Hunt, actress and co-founder/first artistic director of the San Diego Public Theatre.

The setting: a Parisian suburb in 1913. Madeleine and Sophie, two young French aviatrixes, struggle to assemble a Bleriot XI monoplane to fly in a long distance competition fro...m Paris to Moscow. Actresses by profession, the women have taken a short break from performing in Chekhov’s THE SEAGULL to visit their friend, mentor and former production manager, Jean Luc, because he has promised them resources that will enable them to fly; resources, it turns out, that they must literally put together. The two women are also the subjects of a documentary which is being made by a woman filmmaker as they work to prepare the plane. At a time when society considers flying a masculine endeavor and acting an unfavorable profession for a woman, will they succeed?

Robyn Hunt and Steven Pearson have created an intriguing, aerial theatrical work, a play about women fliers before World War I, based on real individuals and historic events of the early 20th century. Starring Lee Fitzpatrick as “Madeleine” and Jennifer Burry as “Sophie”, the two ambitious aviatrixes/actresses, Eric Bultman as Jean Luc, a former production manager and owner of the hangar where the women assemble the monoplane, Robyn Hunt as “Alisse” a documentary film maker and old friend of Jean Luc, and William Shuler as “Gerard”, a young actor in the theatre company who has accompanied the women on their weekend adventure.

FLIGHT premieres in New York this March 23, 2011 at The Connelly Theatre, an historic miniature opera house on Manhattan’s lower East Side, and will run through April 10, 2011.

FLIGHT is the third in a trilogy of full-length productions by Ms. Hunt and Mr. Pearson inspired by Anton Chekhov’s plays that integrate art, history, and science with powerful, physically demanding performance. Begun in 1999, the first of the trilogy was BALANCE, a whimsical look at THE THREE SISTERS, time, Samuel Beckett’s work, and the Oxford English Dictionary (Seattle 2003). The second was GRAVITY, a more serious interweaving of THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Diaghilev and the Ballet Russe, Einstein’s work on relativity and gravity, and the great Paris flood of 1910 (Seattle 2004, and New York at the Connelly Theater 2007). FLIGHT now makes its New York debut. following initial workshop performances at University of South Carolina’s Center of Performance Experiment in November 2009, and performances this past May 2010 at Columbia, South Carolina’s Longstreet Theatre.

FLIGHT is a presentation of Pacific Performance Project/East and is sponsored by the University of South Carolina. The Connelly Theater is managed by The Cornelia Connelly Center for Education. For information regarding rental of the theater for performances, readings, rehearsals, etc., please call (212) 982-3995.

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