Flyby review – interstellar musical is a voyage of epic strangeness

Southwark Playhouse Borough, London The songs soar and blast in this inventive tale of a toxic romance – though it needs a few tweaks to be truly brilliant The scope and ambition of this dark musical by Theo Jamieson and Adam Lenson are boundless. A jagged, time- and space-travelling drama about the emotional wreckage of a mutually destructive relationship, it begins with reports of a young astronaut who has gone awol in a shuttle. Why has Daniel (Stuart Thompson, fabulous) disappeared with s...

By Arifa Akbar