Flight Path

Synopsis

Jonathan’s a bright boy with a great future and people expect things of him. Especially now that his Dad’s walked out, Mum's got her career, and Danny needs looking after. Danny- his brother with Down’s Syndrome and a love of creative swearing. But his best friend needs him too. They’re partners in crime and, anyway, it’s hard work burgling houses all on your own. A lot can happen in a year. Especially when it's the most important year of your life.

Our Review:

18 September 2007

The flight path in David Watson’s Flight Path is the one at Heathrow under which teenagers take menial jobs in the airport. One of them, Jonathan (Cary Crankson), is the focal figure in a fresh, authentic-sounding play about friendship and brotherly love.

Jonathan’s elder brother, 25-year-old Daniel (Scott Swadkins), has Down’s syndrome and a Harry Potter obsession. He has been farmed out to special schools but has developed a love of gardening. The boys’ parents have split up: Sean (Will Knightley, Keira’s dad) is a philandering academic; Susan (Mossie Smith) has found herself, apparently, as a social worker in Waltham Forest.

Watson is another promising product of the Young Writers’ programme at the Royal Court and his play shows all the signs of learning how to channel raw experience into structured theatre; criticism is all but disarmed by such patent evidence of the learning process.

Then a tender, touching scene in which Jona...

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