Victoria by Cathy Marston, music by Philip Feeney
Northern Ballet
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Cast
Cathy Marston — Choreographer
David Nixon — Artistic director
John Pryce-Jones — Music director
Steffen Aarfing — Set designer, costume designer
Alastair West — Lighting designer
Uzma Hameed — Dramaturgy
Abigail Prudames — Victoria
Joseph Taylor — Albert
Pippa Moore — Older Princess Beatrice
Miki Akuta — Young Princess Beatrice
Mlindi Kulashe — John Brown
Sean Bates — Liko
Filippo Di Vilio — Bejamin Disraeli
Riku Ito — Lord Melbourne
Gavin McCaig — William Gladstone, Uncle Leopold
Minju Kang — Victoire
Matthew Topliss — Conroy
Program notes
This magnificent contemporary ballet by Cathy Marston recounts the fascinating life of Queen Victoria, told through the eyes of her daughter Beatrice. Performing to an original score by Philip Feeney, the Leeds-based Northern Ballet paints a moving tableau of one of history’s most iconic and emblematic figures through different periods of her long life — from the effervescent, powerful young woman who took the throne to the tragic widow dressed in black after the death of Prince Albert.
After the Queen’s death, her daughter Princess Beatrice — now a widow herself and seeking to find out more about her mother and father — looks to the diaries Victoria has left behind for answers... To bring Victoria’s memories to life, the dancers of the Northern Ballet execute Marston’s captivating choreography with elegance and emotion, immersing us in the lives of one of the 19th-century’s most famous families against a striking and modern backdrop.