Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy. 

While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy adopts a similar facade. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.

Max Webster (Life of Pi) directs this hilarious story of identity, impersonation, and romance, filmed live from the National Theatre in London.

Cast:

ODETTE/ ODILE Yasmine Naghdi

PRINCE SIEGFRIED Matthew Ball

VON ROTHBART Thomas Whitehead

THE QUEEN Christina Arestis

BENNO Joonhyuk Jun

PRINCE SIEGFRIED’S YOUNGER SISTERS Leticia Dias, Annette Buvoli

Creatives:

CHOREOGRAPHY Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov

ADDITIONAL CHOREOGRAPHY Liam Scarlett and Frederick Ashton

MUSIC Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky

PRODUCTION Liam Scarlett

DESIGNER John Macfarlane

LIGHTING DESIGNER David Finn

STAGING Gary Avis, Laura Morera, and Samantha Raine

ARTISTIC SUPERVISOR Laura Morera

Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans while out hunting. When one of the swans turns into a beautiful woman, Odette, he is enraptured. But she is under a spell that holds her captive, allowing her to regain her human form only at night. Von Rothbart, arbiter of Odette's curse, tricks the Prince into declaring his love for the identical Odile and thus breaking his vow to Odette. Doomed to remain a swan forever, Odette has but one way to break the sorcerer's spell.