New musical FLYBY to premiere at Southwark Playhouse Borough
Daring new musical FLYBY by Theo Jamieson, directed and co-created by Adam Lenson, will receive its world premiere at Southwark Playhouse Borough from 3 April - 16 May, with casting also announced today.
Originally developed in 2025 by the National Theatre, FLYBY fuses an intimate and exhilarating love story with the vast and endless loneliness of space. At its centre are Daniel, a brilliant but unpredictable engineer who disappears into the void, and Emily, a fiercely intelligent documentary film maker with a complicated past.
As the narrative shifts between past and present, we uncover the tangled forces that drove him there - Daniel and Emily’s passionate, combustible relationship; his growing psychological unravelling; and Emily’s struggle to define herself amid talent, ambition, and moral ambiguity.
FLYBY is a musical story about the magnetism of desire, the inescapable gravity between two people, and their need to feel deeply - sometimes recklessly - alive.
Emily and Daniel are played by Poppy Gilbert (My Oxford Year, Netflix; The Other Bennett Sister, BBC) and Stuart Thompson (Spring Awakening, Almeida Theatre; SAS: Rogue Heroes, BBC), with Gina Beck (Wicked, West End; Guys & Dolls, Bridge Theatre) as Amy Greenwood, Rupert Young (Dear Evan Hansen, West End; Bridgerton, Netflix) as Jonathan Jay, and Simbi Akande (My Fair Lady, The Mill at Sonning; Hamilton, West End) as Grace Adams.
Joining Theo and Adam on the creative team are set designer Libby Todd and lighting designer Ben Jacobs.
