Details

Set in and around the lounges and gates of Edinburgh International Airport, the production explores the phenomenon of mass global air travel. Are modern air passengers the contemporary equivalent of angels, bearing messages across the globe, or nomadic wanderers for whom home is no longer bound by national boundaries? Inspired by a diversity of texts from Michel Serres, Pico Iyer, Alain de Botton and many others, as well as testimoies from refugees and airport workers, Grid Iron's production combines a multinational company of ten performers together with a large group of non-professional participants aged five to eighty-five.

Cast/Performers

Sarah Belcher, Andy Clark, Claire Cochrane, Saseen Kawzally, John Kazek, Itaxso Moreno

Creatives/Company

Author: Ben Harrison
Producer(s): National Theatre of Scotland, Judith Doherty
Company: Grid Iron (in association with BAA Edinburgh)
Director: Ben Harrison
Music: Philip Pinsky
Design: Cliff Dolliver
Lighting: Paul Claydon
Costume: Joan Hickson
Choreographer: Fleur Darkin
Other: Zinnie Harris (Dramaturg)