Cast Sheet – BB Shadows 2025
SADLERS WELLS THEATRE 26th-29th November
Founder & Artistic Director | Cassa Pancho MBE
Lighting designs by David Plater
Ballet Black: SHADOWS, a double bill of new work
Opening Piece
A Shadow Work (2025)
Created with support from the John Ellerman Foundation
Choreography & Direction | Chanel DaSilva
Original score | Cristina Spinei
Costume design | Natalie Pryce
Assistant Choreographer | Jamal Callender
Rehearsal director | Charlotte Broom
CAST | Taraja Hudson Acaoã de Castro
Isabela Coracy, Megan Chiu, Love Kotiya, Bhungane Mehlomakulu, Helga Paris-Morales, Elijah Peterkin, Ebony Thomas & Ruby Runham
INTERVAL 20mins
My Sister, The Serial Killer (2025)
Created with support from the Cockayne Foundation
Adapted from the best-selling novel by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Choreography, direction & adaptation for stage | Cassa Pancho
Associate Choreographer | Jacob Wye
Additional choreography | Charlotte Broom, Isabela Coracy, Acaoã de Castro, Megan Chiu, Taraja Hudson, Mikayla Isaacs, Love Kotiya, Bhungane Mehlomakulu, Helga Paris-Morales,
Elijah Peterkin, & Ebony Thomas
Original score | Tom Harrold
Costume design | Jessica Cabassa
Set design | Richard Bolton
Additional music from Toots & The Maytals & Fela Kúti
When Korede gets a distress call from her sister Ayoola, she knows what to do: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel, and a strong stomach. It’s the third boyfriend Ayoola has killed in “self-defence,” and the third mess
Korede has to clean up. She should probably go to the police, but family comes first.
Things take a turn when Ayoola begins dating the doctor Korede secretly loves,
forcing Korede to choose between saving him and betraying her sister…
CAST
Korede | Isabela Coracy
Ayoola, her sister | Helga Paris Morales
Tade, the doctor | Ebony Thomas
Femi (deceased) | Love Kotiya
Gboyega | Acaoã de Castro
The River | The Nurses | The Patients | The Party Guests | The Ghosts
Acaoã de Castro, Megan Chiu, Taraja Hudson, Mikayla Isaacs, Love Kotiya, Bhungane Mehlomakulu, Elijah Peterkin & Ruby Runham.
With thanks to Alistage, Matt Cain, Zulum Elumogo, Natasha Gordon, Yinka Ilori MBE, Kash Oladiran & Lesley Thorne for their encouragement and support in making this ballet a reality (and for helping us Caribbean kids to pronounce Nigerian names correctly!)
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