Northern Ballet Theatre - News Blog

This week sees the final week of our Spring/Summer tour with performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Venue Cymru in Llandudno from Wed 4 - Sat 7 June.

Provisional casting is as follows - as always, please remember that this is subject to change at any time.

Wed 4
Theseus         Hiro Takahashi
Hippolyta       Keiko Amemori
Hermia           Georgina May
Helena           Christie Duncan
Lysander        Kenneth Tindall
Demetrius      Toby Batley
Puck               Victoria Sibson

Thur 5 matinee
Theseus         Darren Goldsmith
Hippolyta       Pippa Moore
Hermia           Hannah Bateman
Helena           Christie Duncan
Lysander        Toby Batley
Demetrius      Ashley Dixon
Puck               Kieran Stoneley

Thur 5 evening
Theseus         Hiro Takahashi
Hippolyta       Keiko Amemori
Hermia           Georgina May
Helena           Michela Paolacci
Lysander        Kenneth Tindall
Demetrius      David Ward
Puck               Ashley Dixon

Fri 6
Theseus         Martin Bell
Hippolyta       Martha Leebolt
Hermia           Lori Gilchrist
Helena           Christie Duncan
Lysander        Yi Song
Demetrius      Toby Batley
Puck               Ashley Dixon

Sat 7 matinee
Theseus         Darren Goldsmith
Hippolyta       Pippa Moore
Hermia           Lori Gilchrist
Helena           Michela Paolacci
Lysander        Yi Song
Demetrius      David Ward
Puck               Kieran Stoneley

Sat 7 evening
Theseus         Martin Bell
Hippolyta       Martha Leebolt
Hermia           Keiko Amemori
Helena           Michela Paolacci
Lysander        Hiro Takahasho
Demetrius      David Ward
Puck               Victoria Sibson

Tickets are still available and can be purchased on 01492 872000 or online at www.venuecymru.co.uk

David Nixon’s Olivier Award Nominated Production, A Midsummer Night’s Dream visits Cardiff next week. The ballet will be on stage from 27th to the 31st of May in the city. To find out more information, or to book tickets, click here.

Here is a provisional casting for the production:

Tues 27
Theseus - Martin Bell
Hippolyta - Martha Leebolt
Hermia - Georgina May
Helena - Pippa Moore
Lysander - Kenneth Tindall
Demetrius - Christopher Hinton-Lewis
Puck - Ashley Dixon

Wed 28
Theseus - Hiro Takahashi
Hippolyta - Keiko Amemori
Hermia - Georgina May
Helena - Christie Duncan
Lysander - Kenneth Tindall
Demetrius - Toby Batley
Puck - Victoria Sibson

Thurs 29 matinee
Theseus - Martin Bell
Hippolyta - Martha Leebolt
Hermia - Hannah Bateman
Helena - Christie Duncan
Lysander - Kenneth Tindall
Demetrius - Christopher Hinton-Lewis
Puck - Kieran Stoneley

Thurs 29 eve
Theseus - Darren Goldsmith
Hippolyta - Pippa Moore
Hermia - Lori Gilchrist
Helena - Michela Paolacci
Lysander - Yi Song
Demetrius - David Ward
Puck - Victoria Sibson

Fri 30
Theseus - Hiro Takahashi
Hippolyta - Keiko Amemori
Hermia - Georgina May
Helena - Michela Paolacci
Lysander - Kenneth Tindall
Demetrius - David Ward
Puck - Kieran Stonley

Sat 31 matinee
Theseus - Hiro Takahashi
Hippolyta - Keiko Amemori
Hermia - Lori Gilchrist
Helena - Christie Duncan
Lysander - Yi Song
Demetrius - Toby Batley
Puck - Victoria Sibson

Sat 31 eve
Theseus - Martin Bell
Hippolyta - Martha Leebolt
Hermia - Georgina Roberts
Helena - Pippa Moore
Lysander - Kenneth Tindall
Demetrius - Christopher Hinton-Lewis
Puck - Ashley Dixon

Four of NBT’s dancers took part in a fashion shoot for the Manchester Evening News ahead of performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Palace Theatre last week.

Georgina May, Yi Song, Michela Paolacci and David Ward posed in beautiful 1940s costumes from the production at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel, sometimes getting right down to their stylish smalls! (Photos: Sean Wilton)

The pictures accompanied Helen Tither’s article interview with David Nixon who not only choreographed the ballet but also designed the costumes. HERE

Click here to read a review of the first night performance at the Palace

“Graeme Stewart slips on his dancing shoes for an extraordinary night at the Grand Opera House

Northern Ballet Theatre have achieved something extraordinary with A Midsummer Night’s Dream. They have taken one of English literature’s best-loved plays, changing nothing and everything at the same time.

With a creative team including artistic director David Nixon, set designer Duncan Hayler and music director John Pryce-Jones, the production is a stunning display of visual and musical delights, and certainly one of the best contemporary interpretations of Shakespeare’s masterpiece…”

Read the rest of the review here.

Edinburgh Evening News (Published Date: 05 March 2008):

“Three fairies appeared at the platform at Waverley station today to promote a performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The Northern Ballet Theatre is performing the play at the Capital’s Festival Theatre, from tonight until Saturday.”

Edinburgh Evening News website

This season’s programmes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet are now available on the Northern Ballet Theatre website as PDF files. You can download them from here by right-clicking the below links:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Programme

Hamlet Programme

All tickets for this season’s performances are now on sale.

To book online click here.

Christopher Giles, Set and Costume Designer on NBT’s latest production, Hamlet, has been interviewed by our Communications team. You can find the video on the new production Flash sites we lauched last week. These sites are still in development, but over the next few weeks new videos, galleries and production information will go up to give you a better picture of each of NBT’s Ballets.  

Click here to visit the Production pages…

On Friday 23 November HRH The Earl of Wessex KCVO attended an evening performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Northern Ballet Theatre at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking. His wife The Countess of Wessex and a number of family friends accompanied the Earl.  The Earl was welcomed to the theatre by David Nixon, Artistic Director of NBT, Yoko Ichino, NBT Ballet Mistress and David Holder, Theatre Manager. Following the performance, the Earl and His guests went backstage to meet the Company. HRH The Earl of Wessex, KCVO is the Royal Patron of NBT, a position He has held since 2003. His Aunt, HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowden was previously Royal Patron until her death in 2002. 

Leading Soloist Darren Goldsmith who met and photographed the Earl said, “It adds something special to an evening when the Earl is in the audience. He always cracks a joke when He comes backstage to meet us and you feel He has a genuine interest in the Company. This will be the third time I’ve photographed a visit by the Earl and it’s a pleasure because he is so relaxed and happy to pose for photographs.”

 
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A feature on NBT’s Cottingley Faires is in today’s Telegraph & Argus.

Click the link below to read more:

To mark the revival of David Nixon’s dance version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, NBT, in conjunction with the National Media Museum (NMM) in Bradford, recreated the famous Cottingley Fairies photograph. Dancers Lori Gilchrist and David Ward posed for the photographs which were edited onto an image of Jenny Layton (from NBT’s Centre for Advanced Training) by NBT’s Graphic Designer, Michael Schofield. On Wednesday 24 October at 2pm, Lori Gilchrist will present an enlarged and mounted version of NBT’s photograph to the NMM. The image will then be included in talks and presentations about the Cottingley Fairies at the NMM. For information on when these will be visit the NMM website

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/

NBT Press Release for more info.

Northern Ballet Theatre’s Autumn/Winter season starts on Thursday 6 September with A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Tickets are still available at all performances so don’t miss a chance to see this Olivier Award nominated production.

Find out more about David Nixon’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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