Skydive garnered five nominations for Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards (including Outstanding Production and Critics Choice for Innovation) of which it captured three: for best direction, sound design, and the amazing aerial choreography that made a quadriplegic fly! Skydive was also acknowledged by the Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology, winning their 2007 Award of Technical Merit in recognition of the show’s complex technical functions.
Skydive has toured to the Belfry Festival in Victoria, Theatre Calgary, the Centaur Theatre in Montreal, the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver (co-presented by the 2009 PuSh Festival), Western Canada Theatre, and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa as part of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival.
With over 100 performances to date, Skydive has already played to over 30,000 people in seven Canadian cities and will continue to expand its reach as it conquers the national and international touring circuits.
The story of the play unfolds in the 30 seconds of a skydiving free-fall gone horribly wrong. In the stretched out perception of time in a crisis, the story travels back to events leading up to their disastrous jump.
Morgan, a gregarious front-man for an ‘80s cover band, decides to help his reclusive brother Daniel escape his spiraling descent into fear-bound paralysis by introducing his newly invented (and perhaps ill-conceived) therapy technique that involves jumping from an airplane in order to face one’s fears.
But while coaching his brother in “Lucid Dreaming” as a means to build his confidence, Morgan unexpectedly opens a Pandora’s Box of childhood memories both comic and traumatic, which begin to reveal clues to their falling-out as adults, and perhaps the opportunity to finally close the widening gap between them.
