WINGS The Young Vic

The last time Juliet Stevenson was at The Young Vic she was buried up to her neck in a low mound. Now in Arthur Kopit’s Wings she is in a harness and flying. She is cast as a former aviator and daredevil wing walker suffering a stroke. Her sense of time and place and her sense of self are shattered. Usually the only chance an actor gets to fly is in revivals of J M Barrie’s Peter Pan. Stevenson’s toes rarely touch the ground. But the focus should be entirely on her inner self; instead the focus in Atalie Abrahami’s production is on the aerial gymnastics and the actor’s acrobatic prowess