70th Anniversary celebrations2020 marks English National Ballet’s 70th Anniversary with celebrations taking place throughout the 2019-2020 Season that give opportunities for the Company to say, ‘Thank You’ to its audiences, fans, friends and partners.The 70th Anniversary will be celebrated with three special Gala performances at the London Coliseum featuring extracts from a … [Read more...] about English National Ballet announces 2019-2020 70th Anniversary Season
Mary Shelley
Photo Album: tonight’s opening cast of Frankenstein, The Royal Ballet
Liam Scarlett's first full-length ballet is revived for the first time running from tonight, 5 March 2019 until 23 March.Victor Frankenstein is played by Federico Bonelli, Elizabeth by Laura Morera, and The Creature is Wei Wang. Scarlett's production uses music by Lowell Liebermann with magnificent designs from John Macfarlane, beautifully and dramatically lit by … [Read more...] about Photo Album: tonight’s opening cast of Frankenstein, The Royal Ballet
Haley Joel Osment drawn back to the dead
Twelve years after The Sixth Sense, Haley Joel Osment has returned to frequent dead people. This time around, he's using them as science projects.Osment will star in "Wake the Dead", an upcoming adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". Based on Steven Niles' Frankenstein-themed graphic novels, Osment will play Victor Franklin, a college student morbidly experimenting … [Read more...] about Haley Joel Osment drawn back to the dead
“Ideas batter me like hailstones. Who am I?” – Frankenstein at the National Theatre
Frankenstein, the play, directed by Danny Boyle, is just the latest in an almost innumerable sequence of stage, television and film versions of Shelley’s book. Ever since it was published, almost 200 years ago, arty types in theatre, movies and television, have found the story of Frankenstein’s act of life-giving irresistible.Boyle's Frankenstein for the National Theatre … [Read more...] about “Ideas batter me like hailstones. Who am I?” – Frankenstein at the National Theatre
All I ask is the possibility of love! – Frankenstein at the National Theatre
The beginning of February sees what must be one of the most highly anticipated productions of 2011 - Frankenstein, directed by Danny 'Slumdog Millionaire' Boyale at London's National Theatre. It is an adaptation by Nick Dear based on Mary Shelley's novel. I followed nature into her lair, and stripped her of her secrets! I brought torrents of light to a darkening world! Is that … [Read more...] about All I ask is the possibility of love! – Frankenstein at the National Theatre
