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Enter Achilles

Ballet Rambert & Sadler’s Wells - Lloyd Newson (DV8)

Dates

Prices

5 — 29 €

Location

Onassis Stegi
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Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Wednesday 19, Thursday 20, Friday 21 February
Time
20:30
Venue
Main Stage
Day
Sunday 23, Monday 24, Tuesday 25 February
Time
20:30
Venue
Main Stage

Information

Tickets

Onassis Stegi Friends presale: from 24 JAN 2020, 17:00
General presale: from 29 JAN 2020, 17:00

Full price: 7, 15, 18, 25, 36 €
Reduced, Friend & Groups 5-9 people: 12, 14, 20, 29 €
Groups 10+ people: 11, 13, 18, 25 €
Neighborhood residents: 7 €
People with disabilities, Unemployed: 5 €
Companions: 10 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@onassis.org

Duration

80 minutes (no interval)

One pub, eight blokes, a stacked jukebox and a load of pints. It was always going to kick off. “Enter Achilles” wrestles with the notion of masculinity, through the funny, provocative and disturbing actions of eight men during an evening in a British pub.

Twenty-five years after legendary dance iconoclast Lloyd Newson (DV8) first dragged British pub culture kicking and yelling onto the stage, Rambert and Sadler’s Wells present Newson’s reworking of this landmark physical-theatre production.

As pertinent now as it was when first staged in 1995, “Enter Achilles” lifts the lid on “the straitjacket of what’s deemed to be masculine” (The Observer), examining the terrors and tenderness of beer-soaked testosterone.

“Violent, ugly, politically incorrect and hilarious” (The Australian) “Enter Achilles” toured 18 countries and was made into a TV film winning many accolades including an International Emmy and Prix Italia. It now returns to the stage with a new cast, selected by Newson, in his first-ever collaboration with another company, the world-renowned Rambert.

Photo: Hugo Glendinning

"Lloyd Newson's powerful and spectacular new work, Enter Achilles, is about violence and vulnerability of manliness - funny, moving, disturbing."

The Sunday Times
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What the British press said about the original production of Enter Achilles:

“A rare, rich, devastating, triumphant work of art … dramatic coherence, human integrity, irresistible visual power, were all there in the most outstanding work I have seen all year.”
Daily Telegraph

“Lloyd Newson's powerful and spectacular new work, Enter Achilles, is about violence and vulnerability of manliness - funny, moving, disturbing”.
Sunday Times

“Remarkably clever and disturbing … It is excellently danced, imaginatively conceived …”
Sunday Telegraph

Photo: Hugo Glendinning

Age 15+ / No latecomers / No filming or photography

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Credits

  • Presented by

    Rambert & Sadler’s Wells

  • Conceived and directed by

    Lloyd Newson (DV8 Physical Theatre)

  • Choreography

    Lloyd Newson with the performers (past and present)

  • Original Set Design

    Ian MacNeil

  • Original Music

    Adrian Johnston

  • Original Lighting Design

    Jack Thompson

  • Creative Associate & Tour Director

    Hannes Langolf

  • Performed by

    Rambert

  • Lighting realised by

    Richard Godin

  • Associate Sound Designer

    Amir Sherhan

  • Design Assistant

    Loren Elstein

  • Costume Design

    Kinnetia Isidore, Richard Gellar

  • Rehearsal Director

    Paul White

  • Performers

    Richard Cilli, Tom Davis Dunn, Nelson Earl, Miguel Fiol Duran, Ian Garside, Eddie Hookham, Scott Jennings, Georgios Kotsifakis, Jag Popham, John Ross

  • A Rambert & Sadler’s Wells co-production

    in association with Onassis Stegi, Athens

  • Co-produced with

    Festspielhaus St. Pölten, Grec Festival de Barcelona i Teatre Nacional de Catalunya; Théâtre de la Ville - Paris / Chaillot - Théâtre national de la danse, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Adelaide Festival, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Romaeuropa Festival and Torinodanza Festival / Teatro Stabile di Torino - Teatro Nazionale

  • Re-creation Premiere

    Festspielhaus, St Pölten (Austria)

  • Premiere International Run

    Onassis Stegi Athens

  • Premiere

    First performed 7 June 1995, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna

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