Celebrating the Barbican Theatre's old fly system, our latest behind the scenes documentary, Flying the Barbican, heads backstage - above stage - to meet some of the personalities that fly our shows.
As we move towards digital systems, we honour the mechanical beauty of the analogue system that has powered our theatre from the very beginning, in those pre-digital days.
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