Boeing Boeing clears stewardess’ uniforms for take-off

Aurora Theatre’s breezy sex farce Boeing Boeing presents a genial fantasy of romance and reconciliation that scarcely touches down for real-world practicalities. In a production cheerfully divorced from reality, nothing proves as fanciful as its coffee-tea-or-me? vision of air travel.

Boeing Boeing takes place in a mod Parisian apartment in the early 1960s, but relies on a notion of airline flight that’s as luxurious and nostalgic as sipping champagne on the Orient Express. Boeing Boeing harks back to a time when security checkpoints and baggage fees were unimaginable, delays unthinkable, and stewardesses completely uninhibited. Compared to the drudgery of contemporary air commuting, Boeing Boeing’s sentiment that “Air travel is becoming more efficient” seems practically topsy-turvy.