Jan 21Jan 26, 2025

BEN DUKE Ruination : The True Story of Medea

French Premiere

Book event

Tickets sale on site before each performance
* Within available seats limit

BEN DUKE’S DANCE-THEATER PIECE IS DARING AND DIVERTING. IS MEDEA A VICTIM OR A MURDERER?

Ben Duke, the envoy for dance-theater in the English-speaking world, offers a contemporary and highly original view of the classics. After his notable adaptations of Shakespeare and Dickens, he has now chosen Medea, devising actions and relationships from the perspective of the female character who can regain control of her own tale in history. As an iconoclast and master of irony he has changed the views of the legendary couple, offering the woman accused and allegedly guilty the possibility to speak out and have a fair trial, while also having Jason appear before the court and forced to admit to acts of negligence and pride. The approach is edifying, and brilliantly executed by nine performers excelling in all fields, singing, acting and dancing, with a wealth of expression on all levels, from comic to tragic.

Duration

01:40

Price

From €8 to €33

Schedules

15:00, 20:00

Place

Les Abbesses

Language

In English
Overtitled in French

LOST DOG/THE ROYAL BALLET
Direction Ben Duke

Original idea Ben Duke and the Company
Direction assistant Andreea Paduraru

LOST DOG / THE ROYAL BALLET

Direction and choerography Ben Duke
Set design Soutra Gilmour Musical direction Yshani Perinpanayagam Lighting Jackie Shemesh Lighting assistant Joe Hornsby Sound Jethro Cooke Video Hayley Egan Direction assistant Andreea Paduraru Choerography assistant Winifred Burnett-Smith Dramaturgy Raquel Meseguer Zafe Surtitles Dominique Hollier Surtitles control Katharina Bader

Set direction Amy Steadman Sound control Chris Campbell Lighting control Hector Murray, Conor Westley Set direction assistant Hannah Gillett

With Miguel Altunaga, Jean Daniel Broussé, Maya Carroll, Liam Francis, Anna-Kay Gayle, Hannah Shepherd and the musicians Sheree DuBois, Yshani Perinpanayagam, Keith Pun

Production direction Jenny Wheeler

Compagnie Lost Dog
Executive production Daisy Drury
Production Emma Evans

Coproduction Royal Ballet, Londres – Lost Dog.

The company thanks Kevin O’Hare, Emma Southworth, Hannah Mayhew, Rhiannon Savell et Ian Smith.

Camilla Greenwell

Liam Francis as Jason and Anna Kay Gale as Persephone in Ruination by Lost Dog photo by Camilla Green.jpg

Camilla Greenwell

Tue 21 Jan 2025

8:00 PM

From €8 to €33

Full