CREATURE
Creature is an unearthly tale of exploitation and human frontiers inspired by Georg Büchner’s expressionist classic Woyzeck, with shadows of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Drawing on themes of abandonment, isolation and the fragility of the mind, Creature is the tale of an outsider and the search for belonging.
In a dilapidated former Arctic research station, the Creature has been conscripted by a military brigade into a bold new experimental programme. He is being tested for his mental and physical ability to adapt to extreme cold, isolation and homesickness; vital qualities in mankind’s proposed colonisation of the ‘final frontiers’ on earth and beyond.
Following the pivotal impact of Dust and Giselle, Creature was Akram’s third collaboration with English National Ballet. His creative team included designer Tim Yip, composer and sound designer Vincenzo Lamagna, lighting designer Michael Hulls and dramaturg Ruth Little.
Creature premiered at Sadler's Wells in September 2021
PRESS
"New production is a superb retelling of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’"
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– Zoe Anderson, Independent
CREATIVE TEAM
DIRECTION & CHOREOGRAPHY
Akram Khan
MUSIC
Vincenzo Lamagna
VISUAL & COSTUME DESIGN
Tim Yipp
LIGHTING DESIGN
Michael Hulls
DRAMATURGY
Ruth Little
PHOTOGRAPHS
Laurent Liotardo, Ambra Vernuccio