Margaret Atwood ballet MaddAddam to be staged by Wayne McGregor
(The Guardian Culture News)

Royal Ballet reveals adaptation of Atwood´s trilogy of dystopian novels Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood and MaddAddamThe British choreographer Wayne McGregor is to stage an adaptation of Margaret Atwood´s trilogy of dystopian novels Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam in a major international collaboration between the Royal Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada.With the palindromic title MaddAddam, the three-act ballet will have its premiere in Toronto in November and reach London in 2022. It features a specially commissioned score from Max Richter and reunites the creative collaborators from McGregor´s acclaimed 2015 production Woolf Works, which brought together three novels by Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves. Continue reading...