In its setup, this is an edge-of-the-seat, high-stakes drama that feels horrifyingly immersive: a honeymooning couple get on a hijacked flight. We watch their plane career to the ground during what they think are their last moments. The terror of the dropping aircraft in Oli Forsyth’s play is thrillingly rendered. A traverse stage in the shape of a boarding bridge is elevated at one end and leads down to a gaping underground hole, which suggests the wide-open sky outside. To slide down the bridge is to be in freefall from 40,000 feet above ground.
Ray (Phil Dunster) and Sylvia (Anjana Vasan) alternately talk to each other and directly to the audience, taking us from meet-cute to marriage, the aeroplane disaster and its emotional aftermath.
