Death Trap

Is Aishwarya dead? Or did she just exit stage left?

A meta dance comedy, full of the turbulence of life and death. Darkly funny and packed with originality.

Rambert and Ben Duke are masters of dance theatre where the dance is exceptional and the theatre delivers irresistible stories.

In Cerberus, enter a world where dance is literally a matter of life or death. This is a bittersweet musing on myth and mortality, complete with funeral couture. Goat is inspired by the music and spirit of Nina Simone, with a live on-stage band performing her iconic songs including Feelings, Feeling Good and Ain’t Got No/I Got, Life.

Following their knock-out Peaky Blinders tour, this is your next chance to see Rambert’s brilliant and daring dancers in these two short pieces created for them by Ben Duke (of Lost Dog), known for story-telling that reveals the absurd, the savage and the funny.

Age rating 12+. These pieces contain themes of death and partial nudity. Goat contains depictions of alcohol consumption.

Cerberus/Goat Ben Duke

York Theatre Royal
3 – 4 October, 7:30pm

Tickets from £15

BSL Interpreted performance – Wed 4 Oct at 7.30pm.

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Bath Theatre Royal
2 – 4 November, 7.30pm.
Matinees Friday and Saturday, 2.30pm

Tickets from £23

Audio Described performance – Fri 3 Nov at 7.30pm
BSL Interpreted performance – Sat 4 Nov at 7.30pm.

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Sadler’s Wells, London
22 – 25 November, 7.30pm

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Audio Described/BSL Interpreted performance and touch tour – Thu 23 Nov at 7:30pm

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Theatre de la Ville

14 – 20 February, 8:00pm

Matinee on Saturday 17 February, 3:00pm

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Hall for Cornwall, Truro

1 – 2 March 2024, 7.30pm

Audio Described/BSL Interpreted performance – Sat 2 Mar at 7.30pm

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Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
6 – 7 March 2024, 7.30pm

Audio Described/BSL Interpreted performance – Thu 7 Mar at 7.30pm

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His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen
26 – 27 March 2024, 7.30pm

Audio Described/BSL Interpreted performance – Wed 27 Mar, 7.30pm

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Wales Millennium Centre
8 – 9 April 2024, 7.30pm

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The Lowry, Salford
18 – 20 April 2024

Audio Described/BSL Interpreted performance – Sat 20 Apr at 7.30pm
Touch tour – Sat 20 Apr at 6.30pm

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Newcastle Theatre Royal
24 – 25 April
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Devised & directed by: Ben Duke

Assistant Choreographer & Re-stager: Winifred Burnet-Smith

Assistant Director: Andreea Paduraru

Intimacy Director: Yarit Dor

Music Director: Caroline Jaya-Ratnam

BSL Interpreter: Clare Edwards

Audio Describer: Caroline Burn

Cerberus

Lighting Design: Jackie Shemesh

Costume Design: Eleanor Bull

Original Assistant Choreographers: Winifred Burnet-Smith & Pip Duke

Musicians

Drums: Romarna Campbell

Singer: Caroline Jaya-Ratnam

Guitar: Dave Manington

Goat

Set & Costume Design: Tom Rogers

Lighting Design: Jackie Shemesh

Video Design: Will Duke

Set Build: Jake Channon

Musicians

Singer: Sheree DuBois

Piano: Caroline Jaya-Ratnam

Drums: Romarna Campbell

Bass: Dave Manington

Death Trap is a coproduction between Rambert and Théâtre de la Ville.

Death Trap is supported by Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation. The production was made possible thanks to the support of members of the Rambert Commissioning Circle.

Ben Duke is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Lost Dog. Ben trained at Guildford School of Acting, the London Contemporary Dance School and has a first class degree in English Literature from Newcastle University. His work explores the overlap and transition between dance and theatre.

In 2016, Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me) was nominated for the Sky Academy Arts Award for dance. Ben won the 2016 National Dance Critics Award for Outstanding Male Performance for Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me) and the 2017 Rural Touring Award for the most innovative and inspirational show.

As well as his work for Lost Dog, Ben has directed and choreographed works for other companies including Goat for Rambert which was nominated for an Olivier award in the Best New Dance Production category in 2018.