Victoria
Northern Ballet, Sadler’s Wells, 29th March 2019
In her 200th anniversary year, Queen Victoria is everywhere. A few days after Season 3 of the British television series Victoria was launched, Cathy Marston’s new full-length work for Northern Ballet headed south from its Leeds premiere to Sadler’s Wells. A co-production with National Ballet of Canada, Marston’s Victoria focuses on the queen’s fraught relationship with her youngest daughter, Beatrice. Opening with the monarch’s death, it depicts Beatrice ploughing through her mother’s journals, preparing them for publication but cutting out the juiciest episodes. One wonders how far Queen Victoria would have been amused.
Pippa Moore (Beatrice) and Abigail Prudames (Victoria)
© Emma Kauldhar
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