Viewing MADDADDAM by Wayne McGregor at Royal Ballet & Opera

The last few tickets are remaining for the two week run of Wayne McGregor’s visionary new ballet based on Margaret Atwood’s epic speculative fiction of the same title. The two hour performance is divided into three acts and sees many of McGregor’s collaborators from his landmark Woolf Works return, with a new score by Max Richter.

Atwood’s original dystopian trilogy that began with Oryx and Crake and continued with The Year of the Flood, moves back and forth between the apocalyptic present and the past, in which survivors of a biological disaster grapple with its aftermath and the personal and political events that lead them there as they attempt to build a new community.

Wayne McGregor brings Atwood’s trilogy to the stage with panache, riffing on the writer’s themes of extinction and invention, hubris and humanity, love and loss, a vivid and dynamic exploration of life beyond societal collapse.