Ballet for Boys

Step inside the Senior Boys’ dressing room and dab your sweat alongside these four best friends, who are rehearsing “Swan Lake” under the stern eye of their mysterious new female teacher.

It’s their final term at the school, and the boys need to decide – like, now! – if they want to make a career out of ballet. Entrenched in a world of traditions and binaries, they grapple with conflicting pressures to be both manly and dainty. (Real men wear tights, right??)

Desires, fears, and tensions are explored through dance and heightened movement, set to thrilling arrangements of some of Tchaikovsky’s most cherished ballet compositions. After all, there’s nothing straightforward about the transition from boys, to swans, to men.

PRODUCTION TEAM:
Writer, Choreographer - Francesco Mandarino (they/he)
Director - Tessie Yu (she/they)
Producer - Iva Lilly (she/they)
Lighting Designer - Holland Brooks (they/them)
Set & Costume Designer - David Wotherspoon (he/him)
Sound Designer - Thomas Coombes (he/him)
Intimacy Advisor - Josh Richardson (he/him)

CAST:
Justin - Jude Paddon-Row (he/him)
Pierre - Jermaine Ferguson (he/him)
Rudy - Abe Geyer (he/him)
Sky - Kaelan Green (he/they)
Vanessa - Rosie Russell (she/they)