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Hold onto your ballet slippers\u2014Game of Thrones<\/em>\u00a0alum Ben Crompton is trading swords for pli\u00e9s. The actor, best known as the deadpan Night\u2019s Watch Lord Commander Eddison Tollett, is now directing a dark, reimagined ballet version of\u00a0Snow White<\/em>\u00a0titled\u00a0Snow White: The Sacrifice<\/strong>1<\/span>10<\/span>.<\/p>\n Produced by\u00a0BalletLORENT<\/strong>\u2014the acclaimed female-led dance theater company run by Crompton\u2019s wife, Liv Lorent\u2014this isn\u2019t your Disney-fied fairy tale. Described as a \u201cbloody, cautionary tale for our image-obsessed age,\u201d the production amps up the Grimm brothers\u2019 original horror with savage choreography, poetic narration, and a haunting score1<\/span>4<\/span>.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/p>\n Director<\/strong>: Ben Crompton (Game of Thrones<\/em>,\u00a0Doctor Who<\/em>)1<\/span>10<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Choreography<\/strong>: Liv Lorent (Artistic Director of BalletLORENT)1<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Script<\/strong>: Carol Ann Duffy (T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet and former UK Poet Laureate)1<\/span>10<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Narration<\/strong>: Sarah Parish (W1A<\/em>,\u00a0Mistresses<\/em>)1<\/span>10<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Music<\/strong>: Murray Gold (Doctor Who<\/em>,\u00a0It\u2019s a Sin<\/em>)1<\/span>4<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Costumes<\/strong>: Nasir Mazhar and Libby El-Alfy2<\/span>10<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Dark & Gritty Tone<\/strong>: The story leans into the Grimm origins\u2014think vanity, cannibalism, and psychological horror\u2014with an \u201cafter dark\u201d rating (16+)4<\/span>10<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Queen-Centric Narrative<\/strong>: Focuses on Snow White\u2019s\u00a0mother<\/em>\u00a0(not stepmother) grappling with aging, jealousy, and monstrous fantasies4<\/span>10<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Innovative Set Design<\/strong>: A giant dressing table transforms into a forest, and the mirror is embodied by a dancer (Aisha Naamani) in metallic silver4<\/span>6<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n No Dwarves?<\/strong>: Instead, a clan of miners symbolizes labor and class contrasts4<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Filmed in July 2025 at BalletLORENT\u2019s studio in Newcastle\u2019s West End (jokingly dubbed \u201cBenywood\u201d as a nod to Hollywood)10<\/span>13<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Features local youth from BalletLORENT\u2019s free Youth Academy10<\/span>13<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Premieres\u00a0September 1, 2025<\/strong>, exclusively on\u00a0Marquee TV<\/strong>, the global arts streaming platform1<\/span>10<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Crompton, though famed for\u00a0Thrones<\/em>, has deep roots in British comedy and drama (Ideal<\/em>,\u00a0Pramface<\/em>, Mike Leigh films). He co-directed this adaptation with Alex Ayre, blending contemporary dance, theater, and film1<\/span>10<\/span>13<\/span>.<\/p>\n Cecilia Beacon, VP of Content at Marquee TV, hailed the project as \u201cvisually stunning, thematically rich, and unafraid to challenge expectations\u201d1<\/span>.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t just another fairy tale retelling. It\u2019s a visceral critique of beauty standards and aging\u2014and a testament to how classic stories can be reinvented through bold, interdisciplinary art. Plus, it\u2019s putting Newcastle\u2019s creative scene on the map10<\/span>13<\/span>.<\/p>\n Snow White: The Sacrifice<\/em>\u00a0joins BalletLORENT\u2019s growing roster of innovative works (like\u00a0The Lost Happy Endings<\/em>, also streaming on Marquee TV)9<\/span>.<\/p>\n \u00a0Ben Crompton directs a bloody, ballet version of Snow White<\/em>\u00a0that\u2019s more\u00a0Black Swan<\/em>\u00a0than Disney princess. Premieres Sept. 1 on Marquee TV.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hold onto your ballet slippers\u2014Game of Thrones\u00a0alum Ben Crompton is trading swords for pli\u00e9s. The actor, best known as the deadpan Night\u2019s Watch Lord Commander Eddison Tollett, is now directing a dark, reimagined ballet version of\u00a0Snow White\u00a0titled\u00a0Snow White: The Sacrifice110. Produced by\u00a0BalletLORENT\u2014the acclaimed female-led dance theater company run by Crompton\u2019s wife, Liv Lorent\u2014this isn\u2019t your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[12767,12771],"class_list":{"0":"post-147881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-crompton","9":"tag-gameofthrones"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u00a0Key Creative Team<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\u00a0What Makes This\u00a0Snow White<\/em>\u00a0Different?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\u00a0Production & Release<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\u00a0Behind the Scenes<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\u00a0Why It Matters<\/strong><\/h3>\n