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 CSULB-based company. Flight was originally conceived by CSULB faculty member Ezra LeBank, and workshopped extensively on campus and in his Long Beach studio. It originally starred LeBank, as well as recent CSULB 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.
