Tea & Biscuits with Emma Rice and Audrey Brisson

We're 2 weeks out from rehearsals for the LIVE BROADCASTS of The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk.  

Emma sits down for virtual Tea & Biscuits with Audrey Brisson who plays Bella Chagall. 

Audrey has worked with Emma on shows such as Midnights Pumpkin, The Wild Bride and, of course, The Flying Lovers.  Aside from here work with Emma, you might have seen her in The Grinning Man, Dead Dog In A Suitcase, Pinnochio and Amelie as well as extensive periods with Cirque Du Soleil. 

Find out just how old Audrey was when she first appeared with Cirque, what new motherhood has been like during Lockdown and why you should always learn your lines even if they are written on a prop!

About The Flying Lovers Of Vitebsk

Perhaps you’ve seen them floating over a Russian village? Or perhaps you’ve seen her toppling forward, arms full of wild flowers, 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 and physical production is drawn in a theatrical language as fluid as Chagall’s paintings, and woven throughout with music and dance inspired by Russian Jewish tradition.