toursenlair Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 this appeared in an interview with Chris Wheeldon in today's Washington Post: "The Royal Ballet has commissioned another made-from-scratch ballet by Wheeldon and Talbot. (He can’t reveal the title, but it’s Shakespeare.)" http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/wunderkind-ballet-choreographer-christopher-wheeldon-tells-a-story-with-alice/2013/01/10/49b081d0-59c1-11e2-b8b2-0d18a64c8dfa_story_1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Thanks for spotting that, Katherine. So, does anyone want to speculate? He's done Midsummer Night's Dream already (not that the RB needs another, or another Romeo & Juliet). What else would work as a ballet? Will it be full-length or shorter? Comedy? Tragedy? History? I don't know enough about Joby Talbot to know what his range is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Isn't it supposed to be The Winter's Tale? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 I vaguely remember reading that he had discounted Twelfth Night. Although I think that would make a splendid ballet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akh Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Taming of the Shrew? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Oh, I do hope it is not Shrew as (a) it is not a particularly good play and ( it has already happily done by Cranko which, if the RB wished to have it, is ready made (especially in a year following Cragen's death.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Othello would make a great ballet for the three main roles, but I don't suppose there are . enough roles in it for a full length company piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 sounds much ado about nothing to me... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 How about The Tempest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavlala Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 The Tempest could look spectacular Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavlala Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Sorry Janet, we posted together! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Two minds one thought! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Tempest sounds great .... It already has a great masque inbuilt .... Not Othello please ... If that's wanted I suggest the Jose Limon Moor's Pavane ... and, of course, a version was done not all that long ago for ABT. I think a ballet surrounding the Wars of the Roses would be ripe. Think too it would be just up Talbot's street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 I remember that Wheeldon worked with the Bolshoi on 'Hamlet', or ‘Elsinore’. Then on the train to St. Petersburg he admitted that the Shakespeare’s plot was too complicated. And, finally, he created for them the ballet titled ‘Misericordes’. May be he has found now his way around the plot and will come back to ‘Hamlet’? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Perhaps Wheeldon is going to tackle one of the long narrative poems like 'The Rape of Lucrece', 'Venus and Adonis' or, most interestingly, 'The Complacent Lover'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTL Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Nureyev did "The Tempest" for Anthony Dowell at the Royal Ballet in the early eighties but it was very short-lived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 In another piece (Dancing Times?), there's mention the the Shakespeare in question involves a statue. That points towards "The Winter's Tale." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 I bet he does it without the Bard's fourth act ... which would make a lot of balletic sense - given that it is virtually a different play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beryl H Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 I would like it to be a serious dramatic work this time, a complete contrast to Alice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Just realised that I can't see the RB starting on a new full-length ballet any time soon, given that they have the new Don Q next season, so I'd guess a shorter one might be in order. Also, I can't see The Winter's Tale being the sort of crowd-puller that would justify a 3-acter, although perhaps I'm wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minder Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Me thinks this is much Ado About Nothing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Me thinks this is much Ado About Nothing! great minds - see #8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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