Flyby, a new musical by Theo Jamieson, will make it world premiere at the U.K.'s Southwark Playhouse Borough April 3–May 16 with an official opening April 9. Co-creator Adam Lenson directs.

Originally developed by the National Theatre, Flyby follows Daniel, a brilliant but unpredictable engineer who disappears into the void; and Emily, a fiercely intelligent documentary filmmaker with a complicated past. The narrative shifts between past and present, uncovering the tangled forces that affect the two. 

Playing Emily and Daniel will be, respectively, Poppy Gilbert (My Oxford Year, The Other Bennett Sister) and Stuart Thompson (Spring Awakening, Rogue Heroes), joined by Gina Beck (Wicked) as Amy Greenwood, Rupert Young (Dear Evan Hansen, Bridgerton) as Jonathan Jay, and Simbi Akande (Hamilton) as Grace Adams.

The upcoming production will also have set design by Libby Todd and lighting design by Ben Jacobs with additional creative team members to be announced.

Jamieson's original musical U.Me was commissioned by the BBC and recorded with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in 2021; a sequel was commissioned and aired in 2024. In 2022 his musical The Famous Five premiered at Theatr Clyd and Chichester Festival Theatre. 

Lenson’s previous directing work includes Cable Street (Southwark Playhouse Borough); Superhero, Wasted, The Rink, The Fabulist Fox Sister (Southwark Playhouse); Public Domain (Vaudeville Theatre); Songs For A New World, Whisper House, 35mm (The Other Palace); Ordinary Days (Trafalgar Studios); Little Fish, Saturn Returns (Finborough Theatre); See What I Wanna See (Jermyn Street Theatre); Dark Tourism (Park Theatre), and more.

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