Amelia

”Lost in the vastness of the sky, I have only myself to confront.’ A fascinating play about the enigmatic 1930’s aviator Amelia Earhart. As well as record-breaking flights – including the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic – she was a pioneering role model. But who was the woman behind the myth? I discovered a means for pulling together all the parts of myself: the scientist, the artist, the adventurer. Flying meant not only freedom, but bringing myself….TO myself.’ Threads of her life from childhood onwards unravel before us, peppered with songs of the period by The Boswell Sisters. Glimpsing the events and relationships that formed her, often in her own words, we watch how her love of flying and adventure grows to the point where she takes off and doesn’t look back.