Project Detail

These Violent Delights

Photo credit: Mihaela Bodlovic © Scottish Ballet

Synopsis

Juliet awakens from a fever dream. How did we get here? The lines between hallucination and memory blur as cinema and dance collide in a kaleidoscopic journey of belonging, defiance, and self-discovery – A vivid retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet brought to life by Scottish Ballet.

Details

Year: 2026
Type of project: Features
Running time: 70 min
Format: Digital
Director: Christopher Hampson, Oscar Sansom 1st Feature
Producer: Beth Allan, Tony Currie
Executive Producer: Steven Roth
Screenwriter: Christopher Hampson, Oscar Sansom
Director of Photography: David Liddell
Production Designer: Sami Fendall
Composer: John Lemke
Principal cast: Kayla-Maree Tarantolo, Ishan Mahabir-Stokes
Choreography: Julia Cheng, Morgann Runacre-Temple, Myles Thatcher, Sophie Laplane, Nicholas Shoesmith, Andrea Azzari

Genre

Experimental LGBTQIA+ Literary Adaption Music Scottish Dance

Production Status

Post-production

Production Company

Scottish Ballet

Tony Currie
25 Albert Drive
Glasgow
G41 2PE

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After C. P. Cavafy. Dedicated to the body, to remembering, to forgetting. When blinded, the senses can cross-pollinate so that they become more closely bonded. Likewise, they can also disassociate and lose contact with each other. Desire transforms things into other things. The erotics of absence and suggestion direct attention away from the materialism of pornography. Longing is described through cinematic space as distance and proximity. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2026 - World premiere

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