Emily, a fiercely independent aviator and wing walker, suffers a stroke that destroys her sense of reality.
Fragments of her life come together as she struggles to find her voice and herself.
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WINGS
by Arthur Kopit
Amy | Lorna Brown |
Billy | Kelle Bryan |
Doctor/Nurse | David Emmings |
Mr Brownstein | Nicholas Gasson |
Doctor/Nurse | Richard James-Neale |
Doctor/Nurse | Emily Mytton |
Mrs Timmins | Mary Sheen |
Emily Stilson | Juliet Stevenson |
Doctor/Nurse | Emily Wachter |
Direction | Natalie Abrahami |
Design | Michael Levine |
Costumes | Holly Waddington |
Light | Guy Hoare |
Sound Design | Gareth Fry |
Projections | Will Duke |
Movement | Anna Morrissey |
Flying Effects | Freedom Flying |
Casting | Julia Horan CDG |
Voice & Dialect | Emma Woodvine |
Associate Designer | Charlotte Henery |
Associate Sound Designer | Ben Grant |
Assistant Director | Anna Poole |
Trainee Assistant Director | Nimmo Ismail |
Anna Poole is supported by the Jerwood Assistant Directors Program at the Young Vic.
Nimmo Ismail is supported through the Boris Karloff Trainee Assistant Directors Program at the Young Vic.
We would like to thank Copperfield Rehearsal Rooms SE1, Ryan Smalley, Andrew Lawrence, John Madden, Mike Dentith, Dennis Pearson, Wing Walk Displays Ltd, Anthony Silverstone, Paul Jarman, Tony Rudd, Joanna Zimmerli, Anna Forde, Lucy Maran, Sally McVicker, Living Pictures, Nirjay Mahindru and InterAct Stroke Support, Joanne & Sharon O’Neill, Rosita Crimmins, Guy’s Hospital, Royal London Hospital and St Thomas’ Hospital
Stage Manager | Sarah Stott |
Deputy Stage Manager | Sophia Dalton |
Assistant Stage Manager | Deborah Machin |
Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager | Megan Charlton |
Costume Supervisor | Poppy Hall |
Flying Operators | Rhodri Siôn Evans |
Sam Shuck | |
Lighting Operator | Nick Di Gravio |
Sound Operator | Amy Bramma |
Video Technician & Sound No. 2 | Candice Weaver / Graeme Pugh |
Automation Operator | Sam Palmer |
Stage Crew | Assad Jan |
Wardrobe Manager | Katherine Rogers |
Wigs Manager | Natalia Osipova |
Production Electrician | Andy Taylor |
Lighting Programmer | Cat Carter |
Video Programmer | Sam Hunt |
Production Video Technician | Zakk Hein |
Costume Maker | Anna Barcock |
Wig Maker | Susanna Peretz |
Scenic Drafting | Charlotte Henery |
Nick Murray | |
Oli Cooper | |
Scenic Artist | Matt Mounsey |
Stage Management Work Placement | Ciara Dredge |
Wardrobe Work Placement | Chloe Walsingham |
Set built by | Young Vic workshops |
Drapery by | Chris Claydon |
Lighting equipment supplied by | Sparks Theatrical Hire |
Sound equipment supplied by | Stage Sound Services |
Video equipment supplied by | Blue-i Theatre Technology |
Rigging equipment supplied by | The Rigging Team |
Wings is generously supported by the Richenthal Foundation, Wellcome Trust and Cockayne Grants for the Arts, a donor advised fund of the London Community Foundation.
The Young Vic 2017 season is generously supported by Garfield Weston Foundation, Genesis Foundation, the Richenthal Foundation, The Sackler trust and an anonymous donor.
LORNA BROWN | Amy
Theatre includes: Bodies, Torn (Royal Court); The Oresteia (Almeida / West End); Little Light (The Orange Tree); Medea, Blurred Lines, Damned by Despair (National Theatre); Crowning Glory (Stratford East); Fear (The Bush); Clybourne Park (Royal Court / West End); Things of Dry Hours (The Gate); Short Fuses (Bristol Old Vic) and Once on this Island (Hackney Empire / Tour).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Notes on Other Productions of Wings
- Characters
- Prelude
- Catastrophe
- Awakening
- Explorations
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