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Ruth Leon recommends.. The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk

Ruth Leon recommends.. The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk

The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk – Digital Theatre

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Perhaps you’ve seen them floating over a Russian village? Or perhaps you’ve seen her toppling forward, arms full of wildflowers, as he arches above her head and steals an airborne kiss.

Partners in life and on canvas, Marc and Bella Chagall are immortalised as the picture of romance. But whilst on canvas they flew, in life, they walked through some of the most devastating times in history.

Daniel Jamieson’s The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk traces this young couple as they navigate the Pogroms, the Russian Revolution, and each other.

Emma Rice’s sumptuous co-production for the Bristol Old Vic, Kneehigh and Wise Children is drawn in a theatrical language as fluid as Chagall’s paintings and woven throughout with music and dance inspired by Russian Jewish traditions.

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