The story of the play unfolds in the 30 seconds of a skydiving free-fall gone horribly wrong. In the stretched out perception of time in a crisis, the story travels back in time to the events that led up to the disastrous jump. Morgan, a gregarious frontman for an ‘80s cover band, decides to help his reclusive agoraphobic brother, Daniel, escape his spiraling descent into fear-bound paralysis by introducing his newly invented (and perhaps ill-conceived) therapy technique that involves jumping from an airplane in order to face one’s fears. 

But while coaching Daniel in the practice of “Lucid Dreaming” as a means of building his confidence for the jump, he unexpectedly opens a Pandora’s Box of childhood memories both comic and traumatic, which begin to reveal clues to their falling-out as adults, and perhaps the opportunity to finally close the widening gap between them.

SKYDIVE premiered to sold-out houses at the PuSh International Performing Arts festival in Vancouver and was nominated for five Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards (including outstanding production and critics’ choice for innovation), winning for sound, direction, and for the aerial choreography that made a quadriplegic fly!

SKYDIVE is a unique theatrical presentation that is staged with the two performers soaring above the stage floor for the entire length of the play. With breathtaking aerial choreography, cinematic action sequences, and a cheeky soundtrack of ‘80s pop, Skydive is a celebration of the power of imagination in the pursuit of the universal dream to fly.