Matthew Bourne’s spectacular production of Swan Lake has announced a number of new dates for its forthcoming 2024 and 2025 tour.
The show is also returning to London this Christmas, playing an 8-week season at Sadler’s Wells Theatre from 3 December 2024 to 26 January 2025. Book tickets here.
Bourne’s reinvention of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece caused a sensation when it premiered almost 30 years ago, replacing the female corps-de-ballet with a menacing male ensemble, and has since become the most successful dance theatre production of all time.
This new “Next Generation” production of Swan Lake is touring the UK and Ireland, starting next week at the Theatre Royal Plymouth from 11 to 16 November 2024, then playing dates in Salford, London, Birmingham, Nottingham, Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton, Norwich, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Milton Keynes, Cardiff, Canterbury, Bradford, Sheffield, Dublin, Aberdeen, and Glasgow. See all dates here.
The new tour dates announced today are Newcastle, Edinburgh, Sheffield and Dublin.
Photos: Swan Lake in rehearsals
The cast of Swan Lake will feature rising New Adventures stars Harrison Dowzell, Jackson Fisch and Rory Macleod as The Swan/The Stranger, alongside James Lovell, Leonardo McCorkindale and Stephen Murray as The Prince, Nicole Kabera and Ashley Shaw as The Queen, Katrina Lyndon as The Queen and the Girlfriend, and Bryony Wood as the Girlfriend.
Video: Swan Lake in rehearsals
The company is completed by Matthew Amos, Benjamin Barlow Bazeley, Alistair Beattie, Ben Brown, Carla Contini, Jade Copas, Anna-Maria de Freitas, Perreira de Jesus Franque, Jamie Duncan-Campbell, Alexander Fadayiro, Savannah Ffrench, Cameron Flynn, Louis Fukuhara, Louis Harris, Kurumi Kamayachi, Sebastien Kapps, Aristide Lyons, Callum Mann, Eleanor McGrath, Jarrod McWilliams, Maisie Mwebe, Mukeni Nel, Eve Ngbokota, George-Murray Nightingale, Harry Ondrak-Wright, Barnaby Quarendon, Molly Shaw-Downie, Nikolas Shikkis, Xavier Andriambolanoro Sotiya, Tom Standing and Christina Walters.
Swan Lake was first staged at Sadler’s Wells in London in 1995, taking the dance theatre world by storm, and has since been performed across the globe, collecting over thirty international awards including the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production and three Tony Awards.
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake is directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne, with set and costume design by Lez Brotherston, lighting design by Paule Constable, video and projection design by Duncan McLean, and sound design by Ken Hampton.
Swan Lake is playing at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London from 3 December 2024 to 26 January 2025.
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