Another
World Premiere
Flies
Into Live Theatre
Flying Into Daylight
Newcastle Live Theatre
27
November – 20 December 2014
Based
on an original story by Victoria Fischer
Directed
by Ron Hutchinson & Max Roberts
Music
created & performed by Julian Rowlands
Choreographed
by Amir Giles
Designed
by Gary McCann
‘You really only get to know
someone when you dance Tango with them.’
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| Summer Strallen and Jos Vantyler |
The
cast has been announced for Live Theatre’s new autumn play Flying Into
Daylight as Summer Strallen and Jos Vantyler in the two lead roles. Flying Into Daylight is a vibrant and
life-affirming journey with live music and passionate Tango, written by Emmy
award-winning screen writer, Ron Hutchinson. It has its World Premiere at Live
Theatre from Thursday 27 November to Saturday 20 December 2014.
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| Summer Strallen |
Summer
Strallen takes the lead role of Virginia,
the character based on an original true story of a young woman who leaves her
mundane life in Britain to
travel to Buenos Aires to
learn Tango. Summer has recently been on tour in Ballroom to Broadway
with Strictly Come Dancing professional Anton Du Beke, which visited
Sage Gateshead in March 2014 as part of a national tour. She starred as Dale
Tremont in Top Hat at Aldwych Theatre in the West
End and as part of a national tour 2012, for which she received
her fourth Olivier Award Nomination for 2013 Best Actress in a Musical
Summer also featured in the BBC productions Land
Girls, Casualty, Doctors and Hotel Babylon as well as
Channel 4’s Hollyoaks.
Summer
Strallen said: "The element of questioning one’s life choices like our
heroine Virginia really
struck a chord with me which is what enticed me to
accept the role. I have always been a fan of Tango and am immensely
looking forward to delving deep into it, especially now knowing how easily
people can be enamoured by it. There are going to be intense steps to
self-discovery within the dance and the play, not only for Virginia
but for me too due to this being only the second play I will have appeared in.
I am hugely excited to fly head first on this journey into the deep, sometimes
dark, passionate, intense world as Virginia in
Flying Into Daylight."
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| Jos Vantyler |
The show also stars Jos
Vantyler who won a Theatre Choice Award for Outstanding Performance in a new
play and was nominated a second time for an OffWestEnd Award (Offie)
for Best Male Performance of 2012 for his portrayal of the promoter of
the Dance Marathon contest in Dead on Her Feet, also written by Ron
Hutchinson. Other award-winning and nominated work includes Ghosts by
Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge and the
Broadway transfer of Prophecy. He has appeared Knight
Spell and the Name of God (Fairmont/HBO) and Here
and Now (CBS). Jos Vantyler said: “Ron Hutchinson is a brilliant and
thought-provoking writer. I can't think of anything more exciting than working
with him on his first writer/director project, Flying Into Daylight at Live
Theatre, Newcastle
with Max Roberts. This is much more than a play, it's a show with live music,
dance and a powerful contemporary script. Combining all these theatrical forms
into a two hander is a wonderful challenge.”
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| Julian Rowlands |
Julian
Rowlands, one of Europe’s
leading Tango musicians, will create the music for Flying Into Daylight
and will play live on stage at each performance. He is a bandoneonist, composer
and arranger specialising in Tango, classical and contemporary music. As a
member of Tango Siempre he composed and performed the music for Midnight
Tango in the West End
and on tour. He has appeared on BBC
television’s Strictly Come Dancing, The One Show and Zingzillas,
on BBC
Radio 3’s In Tune.
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| Ron Hutchinson |
Writer
Ron Hutchinson is a screenwriter currently based in Los
Angeles who won an Emmy Award for Murderers
Among Us; The Simon Wiesenthal Story. He has received four other Emmy
nominations. He wrote his first television play Twelve Off The
Belt for the BBC,
and further television plays and series, including
two series of Bird of Prey starring the late Richard Griffiths and Connie,
starring Stephanie Beecham.
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| Max Roberts |
Max
Roberts, Artistic Director, Live Theatre, said: ‘‘As a new writing theatre we
receive lots of scripts. It is very rare indeed that I read a play and say
‘Wow, we should try and do this’. But that is exactly what happened when Ron
Hutchinson’s new musical play Flying Into Daylight came to us. The raw,
passionate and distinctive music and dance of the Tango aligned with a
beautifully written, compelling and life affirming narrative provides the basis
of an inherently theatrical experience. This will be yet another not to be
missed Live Theatre highlight.’
’
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| Amir Giles |
The Tango in the play is choreographed
by Amir Giles, a performer and choreographer trained at the Rambert School of
Ballet and Contemporary Dance. Amir has performed at the Royal Opera House and
on tour, as a swing dancer in the upcoming Marvel Comics’ Avenger's sequel, and
as Señor Gomerez in ITV's Mr Selfridge. He has worked with companies
including Paramount Pictures, Boy George, Film Four and Royal College of
Music.
Tickets:
For
more information on Flying Into Daylight and to buy tickets
costing between £22 to £10, over 60s concessions from £16 to £10 and other
concessions between £15 and £5 call Live Theatre’s box office on (0191) 232
1232 or see www.live.org.uk.
On The Web:
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Website: www.live.org.uk
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