Photos: Stuart Thompson and Poppy Gilbert in FLYBY at Southwark Playhouse Borough
The production begins performances tonight, and will run through May 16.
You can now get a first look at production photos of FLYBY, the new musical by Theo Jamieson, directed and co-created by Adam Lenson. This new British musical has its official opening at Southwark Playhouse Borough tonight and runs for six weeks only - until Saturday 16 May 2026.
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 (Stuart Thompson), a brilliant but unpredictable engineer who disappears into the void, and Emily (Poppy Gilbert), 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.
Photo credit: Alex Brenner
Stuart Thompson, Poppy Gilbert
Stuart Thompson, Poppy Gilbert
Stuart Thompson, Poppy Gilbert
Poppy Gilbert
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