![]() ![]() ![]() In fact Creature is a bit of a Frankenstein’s monster itself, its plot following Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck, about a soldier whose body is used for experiments, with a bit of Lord Byron’s apocalyptic poem Darkness too. Space might not be where we expected to end up on hearing that Akram Khan’s Creature, his much-delayed third work for English National Ballet (following the very successful Dust and Giselle), was inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Looped into Vincenzo Lamagna’s soundtrack, his words become ominous, breeding discomfort about our ongoing attempts to colonise space. “Because of what you have done, the heavens have become part of man’s world,” he tells them. I t opens with a deafening rumble and Richard Nixon’s telephone call to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin after they landed on the moon. ![]()
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