Cinema screening of The Royal Ballet's Kenneth MacMillan production of Manon, with music by Jules Massenet.
The Royal Ballet bring Manon to the Stephen Joseph Theatre on Tuesday 27 October, a cinema screening of the production rather than a live performance. It's one of their signature works, Kenneth MacMillan's 1974 adaptation of Abbé Prévost's novel, and it's set in the seedy underbelly of 18th-century Paris. The story follows Manon, caught between twin desires when she falls in love with the student Des Grieux, whose steadfast devotion offers her an honourable life against the riches promised by Parisian society.
MacMillan's nuanced understanding of human psychology drives an unflinching look at the moral degradation at the heart of the story, and it's brought to the stage through Jules Massenet's score and Nicholas Georgiadis's designs. The production is choreographed by MacMillan, with Massenet's music orchestrated by Martin Yates and conducted by Koen Kessels. Georgiadis also handles the set and costumes, and Jacopo Pantani is responsible for the lighting.
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The screening starts at 7:15pm, with a runtime of about 3 hours and 10 minutes, broken up by two intervals. Tickets start from ÂŁ18, and the venue is the Stephen Joseph Theatre on Westborough, YO11 1JW, in Scarborough.
