Invisible Cities

Created inside Mayfield, Manchester’s iconic former railway depot, Invisible Cities was premiered at Manchester International Festival by Rambert, Leo Warner, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Lolita Chakrabarti and 59 Productions and is a collision of theatre, choreography, music, architectural design and projection mapping.

Marco Polo imagines a succession of alternative worlds: Zenobia, a city of joy; Beersheba, a celestial city of gold; Isadora, a city of promise, seduction, and desire…

City by unseen city, the young explorer conjures from the ether a vast and spectacular empire. All for the benefit of its emperor – Kublai Khan, the volatile head of a vast empire and his master – who may never get to see it for himself.