A memorable evening of music and dance celebrating the abolition of the slave trade, to raise funds for the Ghana charity Ashanti Development.
Royal Ballet dancers including Mara Galeazzi, Yuhui Choe, Thomas Whitehead and Sergei Polunin, come together with Agnes Lopez Rio, Antoine Vereecken and Neil Brown from Wayne McGregor / Random Dance, to present a rich variety of new and recent choreography, interwoven with music composed by ex-slaves and arrangements of spirituals and plantation songs, played by Robert Gibbs, Adrian Bradbury, Oliver Davies and Henry Roche.
Director: Jude Kelly Designer: Michael Vale Music Director: Jonathan Gill Choreographer: Nick Winston Lighting Designer: Mike Gunning Visual Installation: Huntley Muir Sound Designer: Ed Clarke Associate Director James Bonas
Assistant Choreographer Darren J Fawthrop
CAST:
Sian Brooke Dorothy Adam Cooper Tin Man Roy Hudd Wizard
Hilton McRae Scarecrow Gary Wilmot Cowardly Lion
Susannah Fellows Glinda / Aunt Em Julian Forsyth Uncle Henry / Guard