Welcome to the Whatsonstage.com Theatre Club

Blue Sky

Hampstead Theatre, Inner London
From: Wednesday, 24th October 2012
To: Saturday, 10 November 2012

Our Review:

Search for tickets

Use the link below to search for Blue Sky tickets on your desired date.

We're sorry, it seems that we do not currently sell tickets for this show. Please go directly to the box office.

Synopsis

A political thriller, Blue Sky investigates what might be happening in the English countryside in the dead of the night. Isolated airports, secret landings... how much do we really know about what our governments are involved in? And do we want to know - or is it easier to turn a blind eye? A fast-paced story about justice and journalism, this is an exhilarating evening at the theatre.

Our Review:

Theo Bosanquet - 26 October 2012

What happens when you combine an investigative journalist with an avid plane-spotter and his political blogger daughter? Well, not as much as you might expect in this new drama from Clare Bayley for Pentabus theatre company.

Set in 2003, the play centres on the quest of Jane (Sarah Malin) to trace a plane that she believes is transporting US terror suspects to 'outsourced' torture destinations.

Calling on the help of a former flame, single father and plane geek Ray (Jacob Krichefski), she soon finds herself knee deep in a story that leads to the door of Mina (Manjeet Mann), whose absent husband she believes to be one of these suspects.

It's an intriguing, if slightly predictable, story, that seeks to combine the narrative drive of an investigative thriller with the heart of a domestic drama. But somehow it falls between two stools, never really raising the pulse with either its political plotline or its romantic subplot.

This said, there are ...

Read more of the review