Wayne McGregor’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s post-apocalyptic trilogy is superbly danced
Jimmy’s clever friend Crake decides to wipe out humanity and replace it with the Crakers, a new, improved species of pretty, passive plant-eaters. The handful of humans who survive the pandemic struggle to build a new life in the ruins. Welcome to the Royal Ballet’s MaddAddam, a 2022 co-production with the National Ballet of Canada which had its UK premiere at London’s Covent Garden on Thursday. Striking designs and superb dancing were let down by a fuzzy, overthought scenario.
An expository voiceover feeds us the story so far and nagging captions forever tell us who’s who or what year it is but things never really become clear. It all looks spectacular. The stage is dominated by a vast egg devised by architects We Not I, which serves as a screen for Ravi Deepres’s harrowing projections: cities in flames; violent protest; a pack of wolves devouring a deer.
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