The world premiere of londonands thrilling new musical love story. Andldquocould you build me a distant lighthouse, with you the light to guide me home?andrdquo originally developed in 2025 by the national theatre, flyby is a bold new musical fusing an exhilarating love story with the vast and endless loneliness of space. Written by theo jamieson rsc and directed and created with adam lenson cable street, flyby has its world premiere at southwark playhouse borough for six weeks only, featuring a contemporary score and an extraordinary cast. Astronaut daniel steals a spacecraft and vanishes into space, leaving emily and their complicated past behind. Through flashbacks and space logs, this captivating new musical reveals the forces that drove him to leave. Emily and daniel are played by poppy gilbert my oxford year andndash netflix, the other bennett sister andndash bbc and stuart thompson spring awakening andndash almeida, sas rogue heroes andndash bbc. They are joined by gina beck glinda in wicked andndash west end, sarah brown in guys and dolls andndash the bridge theatre as amy greenwood, rupert young dear evan hansen andndash west end, bridgerton andndash netflix as jonathan jay, and simbi akande eliza doolittle in my fair lady andndash the mill at sonning, hamilton andndash west end as grace adams. At the centre of the story is daniel, a brilliant but unpredictable engineer who disappears into the void, and emily, a fiercely intelligent documentary filmmaker with a complicated past. As the narrative moves between past and present, the story unravels daniel and emilyands passionate, combustible relationship, his growing psychological instability, and emilyands struggle to define herself amid talent, ambition and moral uncertainty. Flyby is a musical story about the magnetism of desire and the powerful gravity that draws two people together. It is a story about longing, connection, and the deep human need to feel truly andmdash sometimes recklessly andmdash alive. Captioned thursday, 30th april, 700pm