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Rambert's Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby is unequivocally satisfying

Rambert in Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby
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Guillaume Quéau in Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby
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Rambert in Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby
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Guillaume Quéau as Thomas Shelby and Naya Lovell as Grace
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By Graham Watts, 23 January 2023
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“The final group dance to the Red Right Hand, built to an outstanding and uplifting climax”
Reviewed at Theatre Royal, Norwich on 21 January 2023
Programme
Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby (Benoit Swan Pouffer)
Performers
Rambert
Naya Lovell, Dancer
Simone Damberg Wurtz, Dancer
Musa Motha, Dancer
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Rambert’s Peaky Blinders: a rollercoaster of a show
Deborah Weiss, 6th August
Rambert’s Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby provokes the whole gamut of emotions, but leaves you feeling euphoric at the end.
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Directement inspiré de la série éponyme de Steven Knight, diffusée sur la BBC de 2013 à 2022, le spectacle du Ballet Rambert retranscrit magistralement l’atmosphère du Birmingham des années 1920.
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Graham Watts
Graham Watts
Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.