Scene stealing: Tristram Kenton’s best theatre and dance shots of 2024 – in pictures
Wayne McGregor’s MaddAddam, the RSC’s School for Scandal and Robin/Red/Breast with Maxine Peake are among the highlights of the photographer’s work for the Guardian this year
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Melissa Hamilton in MaddAddam by Wayne McGregor, based on Margaret Atwood’s novels, at the Royal Opera House, London
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Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Dan Skinner in Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector, adapted by Patrick Myles, at Marylebone theatre, London
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Donny Beau Ferris and Sean Moss in Now by Jasmin Vardimon Company at the Gulbenkian, Canterbury
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Jo Foster in Why Am I So Single? by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss at the Garrick, London
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Clive Rowe in The Baker’s Wife by Stephen Schwartz and Joseph Stein at Menier Chocolate Factory, London
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Lauren Cuthbertson in Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Christopher Wheeldon at the Royal Opera House, London
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Jodie McNee and Ricardo Castro in Minority Report by David Haig at Lyric Hammersmith, London
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John Leader and Wil Johnson in The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, directed by Tinuke Craig, at the Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
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Kristen McNally, Calvin Richardson, Ashley Dean and Joseph Sissens in The Statement by Crystal Pite at the Royal Opera House, London
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Maxine Peake in Robin/Red/Breast by Maxine Peake, Sarah Frankcom, Imogen Knight, Daisy Johnson and Gazelle Twin at Aviva Studios, Manchester
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Tanaka Bingwa and Gabija Čepelytė in Cycles by Boy Blue at the Barbican, London, with concept and composition by Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante and choreography by Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy
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Charlotte Louise, Travis Wood and Dylan Collymore in Pinocchio at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London
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The Velveteen Rabbit by balletLORENT at Lilian Baylis theatre, Sadler’s Wells, London. Choreography by Liv Lorent
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Precious Adams in Pass It On by Arielle Smith at the Linbury theatre, London
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Tosin Cole and Heather Agyepong in Shifters by Benedict Lombe at the Bush theatre, London
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Agora by Cassi Abranches from São Paulo Dance Company at Sadler’s Wells, London
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Tim McMullan in Mnemonic, conceived by Simon McBurney, a co-production with Complicite at National Theatre, London
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Zheng Xi Yong, top, in Your Lie in April by Frank Wildhorn at Harold Pinter theatre, London
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Sangeun Lee in English National Ballet’s Swan Lake in-the-round by Derek Deane at The Royal Albert Hall, London
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Ashley Byam and Liam King in Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe, directed by Lucy Cuthbertson
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Sam Tutty and Dujonna Gift in Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan at the Criterion theatre, London
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Momoko Hirata in The Sleeping Beauty by Birmingham Royal Ballet at the Mayflower theatre, Southampton
