This piece of art is a wonderful way to close the Panimo Pandemonium Festival Theatre Thoughts

pushes the bounds of creativity and excels Olivia Ruggiero

A moment is never a moment on its own. You have to understand the context…

A family sits on their veranda eating breakfast, the kookaburra’s laugh over their heads and the relationship between a man and his daughter is about to fracture beyond repair. Fledgling, a new adaptation of The Flight of Birds by Australian novelist Joshua Lobb, is a play about the point of no return passing innocuously on a Friday afternoon, without anyone noticing or lifting a finger to stop it. This new play from writer/director Lily Hayman explores the traces we leave behind in the world and each other, revealing the ways that families become units of transmission. Because it’s not the point of no return that kills you. It’s the constant waiting for that point to arrive without doing anything to stop it. 

Director Lily Hayman With Ben Stonnill, Nick Vagne, Jessica Melchert, Claire Gilmour

Lighting Design Samuel Read Stage Manager Tyler Fitzpatrick Produced by Lily Hayman and Tyler Fitzpatrick

Adapted from The Flight of Birds by Joshua Lobb