Broadcast live from the performance at Leeds Playhouse, Northern Ballet's Dracula will be screened at 300 cinemas in the UK and Ireland on October 31 for one night only.
Created and choreographed by Northern Ballet’s artistic director, David Nixon, who has also designed the costumes, the production is set to a score featuring music by Alfred Schnittke, Sergei Rachmaninov, Arvo Pärt and Michael Daugherty.
Nixon said, “Bram Stoker’s Dracula continues to have an enduring allure, drawing people in more than a century after the novel was first published in 1897. It explores the ends to which one might go to live forever rather than face the unknown consequences of death and it examines how far we are prepared to allow the bonds of friendship and love to take us.
"While Dracula is often viewed as pure evil, the thought that vampires can also love and even moderate their behaviour has become a common theme. I propose the question that love can dominate us no matter who or what we are and dictate our destiny.
“The fact that my production of Dracula is going to be Northern Ballet’s first live cinema broadcast, and on Halloween as well, is very exciting! To be able to reach thousands more people with our productions than we can reach via our tours is an incredible opportunity and enables as many people as possible to engage with and develop a passion for our art form.”