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"The Flying Monk rocks Brighton!"
by Sascha Cooper for remotegoat on 20/05/10 The Komedia Studio bar was the perfect setting for The Flying Monk as it was intimate, but yet felt larger than it actually was. |
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Soop Theatre’s The Flying Monk – Giant Olive Theatre, London
The story of The Flying monk was a brave subject matter for a fairly new company to work with and on the whole Soop Theatre did well. A true story, if slightly skewed for comic purposes, and one from a rich historical period that stretches beyond what we usually learn in any detail at school. The Flying Monk covered the unusually interesting and calamitous life of Eilmer the monk, who, in the midst of events leading up to the Bayeux Tapestry of 1066, made a pair of wings and endeavoured to fly. The density of important historical events within this stretch of time meant that it occasionally did indeed feel as if we were at school; there were parts of this play where it felt like hard work, and required being fed chunks of history in dialogue, in order to push the plot along.
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The Flying Monk
Devised by Nathan Chapman, Sarah Hutchinson, Peter Henderson, Sian Green and Henry Oastler
Music by Denise Baugh and Kevin Jacks
Soop Productions
Lion & Unicorn Theatre
Review by Howard Loxton (2010)
Back in the year 1010, a millenium ago, an English monk at the Abbey of Malmesbury in Wiltshire made the first recorded flight by a human (if you don’t count the tale of Icarus which helped to inspire it). Brother Eilmer was in the air for about a furlong (200 metres), and only up there for half a minute, but airborne he was and he flew, or at least glided. |
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The Flying Monk Published Friday 18 June 2010 at 16:08 by Catherine Usher A tale set in 1010, based on the true story of Eilmer, the Malmesbury monk who tried to fly, isn’t going to be to everyone’s tastes, but full marks for creativity. |
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Soop Theatre Company presents
The Flying Monk A review by James Buxton for EXTRA! EXTRA! |
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