A Matter of Life & Death
A new staging of an iconic British film. A Matter of Life and Death seamlessly blends together romance, drama and fantasy, and will take audiences on an emotional journey, exploring what happens when love, fate and the laws of the universe collide.
Creative Team
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Theresa Heskins
Director
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Laura McEwen
Designer
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Akintayo Akinbode
Composer & Musical Director
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Alexandra Stafford
Lighting Designer
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Alex Day
Sound Designer
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Beverley Norris - Edmunds
Movement Director
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Sundeep Saini
Intimacy Director
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Caroline Hetherington
Vocal Coach
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Illuminos
Projection Design
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Polly Wain
Staff Director
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Anji Carroll
Casting Assosciate
It’s 1945. When British Pilot Peter Carter’s plane goes down just off the coast of England, he doesn’t expect to survive. Miraculously, after leaping from his burning plane without a parachute, he finds himself face-to-face with June, the American radio operator who kept him company on his final journey. As the pair fall instantly and deeply in love, Peter discovers a celestial error has occurred – he was supposed to die but the heavenly conductor missed him as he fell through the fog.
Caught in a limbo between life and death, Peter is called by the heavenly court to answer for his survival and defend his right to live. Can he convince the judge he deserves a second chance at life and prove that love truly can conquer all?
Rehearsal Photography
About Sunny
Sundeep Saini is a movement director and choreographer passionate about driving narrative through physicality. She has worked with; children from 3 years old up to adults, community ensembles and professional companies, actor-musicians, classical actors and musical theatre performers, people with and without disabilities and strives to push them all to reach their full potential in both technique and performance.
She is a creative with a keen focus on embedding a movement vocabulary into a piece and strives to build character, narrative, musicality and production style whilst pushing the boundaries of choreography and movement.