The Seven Deadly Sins

Stream the sins of the city from the stage of Leeds Playhouse direct to your home with Brecht & Weill’s jazzy Seven Deadly Sins ONDemand.

Meet Anna and Anna: one person, two personalities. Sent away for seven years to make money for their struggling family, they journey between seven cities from Philadelphia to San Francisco, and encounter sloth, pride, wrath, gluttony, lust, greed and envy on the way. As they do, they dance, sing, argue and bear the sardonic commentary of their family.

Weill’s playful and shimmering ‘sung ballet’ – his final collaboration with Brecht – is directed and choreographed by Gary Clarke (Street Scene) and features Wallis Giunta (Trouble in Tahiti) and dancer Shelley Eva Haden as the two Annas.

Watch it live online at 6pm on Saturday 21 November, after which you will have access until 11:59pm on Monday 23 November. 

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Kurt Weill
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
Ballet with Singing
Text by Bertolt Brecht
Arrangement for 15 Players by HK Gruber and Christian Muthspiel
Performed in the English translation by Michael Feingold.

This streamed performance of Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins presents a preview of a new arrangement of this work by HK Gruber and Christian Muthspiel, ahead of the arrangement’s scheduled UK premiere by the Royal Opera in spring 2021. We are very grateful to the Royal Opera for facilitating these performances

By arrangement with Schott  Music Ltd agent for The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music and the heirs of Bertolt Brecht.