FLYBY

About the show

FLYBY is a daring new musical by Theo Jamieson directed and co-created by Adam Lenson. It has its world premiere at Southwark Playhouse Borough on Friday 3rd April and runs for six weeks only until Saturday 16th May 2026.

Originally developed in 2025 by the National Theatre, FLYBY fuses an intimate and exhilarating love story with the vast and endless loneliness of space. At its centre are Daniel, a brilliant but unpredictable engineer who disappears into the void, and Emily, a fiercely intelligent documentary film maker with a complicated past.

As the narrative shifts between past and present, we uncover the tangled forces that drove him there - Daniel and Emily’s passionate, combustible relationship; his growing psychological unravelling; and Emily’s struggle to define herself amid talent, ambition, and moral ambiguity.

FLYBY is a musical story about the magnetism of desire, the inescapable gravity between two people, and their need to feel deeply - sometimes recklessly - alive.