Cocteau sins: Les Enfants Terribles by the Royal Ballet – in pictures
The Barbican in London is staging a new production of Philip Glass’s dance-opera, based on Jean Cocteau’s sensational novel Les Enfants Terribles. Step inside the surreal world of two siblings’ deadly games
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All photographs: Tristram Kenton
First published in France in 1929, Cocteau’s Les Enfants Terribles follows Paul and Lise, a brother and sister whose fantasy world has overtaken reality
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Royal Ballet principals Zenaida Yanowsky and Edward Watson play the siblings
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Gemma Nixon and Yanowsky in Les Enfants Terribles, which is directed and choreographed by Javier de Frutos
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Thomasin Gulgec in Les Enfants Terribles, part of a Cocteau trilogy composed by Philip Glass
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Jonathan Goddard and Clemmie Sveaas, leaping, in Les Enfants Terribles. Glass’s dance-opera was created in 1996
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Gyula Nagy and Jennifer Davis in Les Enfants Terribles. The staging is part of Glass’s 80th birthday celebrations
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‘Cocteau’s writing is so beautiful,’ said De Frutos. ‘I would have loved to just make a beautiful dance. But I couldn’t do it. I had to get at the reality of what’s there’
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Clemmie Sveaas and Emily Edmonds in Les Enfants Terribles. The production is designed by Jean-Marc Puissant
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Les Enfants Terribles is at the Barbican, London, until 29 January
