Rambert takes over stage and screen as Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby returns

It’s been 10 years since the first episode of Peaky Blinders, created and written by Steven Knight, aired on the BBC.

To mark the anniversary, Rambert has announced that its popular dance theatre show Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, created in collaboration with Knight, will return to stages next year and it’s coming to Oxford.

And from stage to screen, Rambert unveil a new dance theatre film Peaky Blinders: Rambert Dance which will be aired on the BBC later in the year, following a limited cinema release.

The company will tour to Aylesbury, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Oxford, Salford and Sunderland from September 2024. Tickets are now on sale at peakyblindersdance.com

Having collaborated with the Peaky Blinders creator to present and tour Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, which saw audiences in excess of 100,000, Rambert is returning, featuring the full dance company and an iconic Peaky soundtrack from a live onstage band,

Inspired by the TV series produced and owned by Caryn Mandabach Productions, the explosive and exhilarating performance has been adapted for the stage by Knight and choreographed and directed by Rambert’s artistic director Benoit Swan Pouffer.

Fans of the TV series and staged adaptation don’t have to wait too long to immerse themselves in Rambert’s world of Thomas Shelby, as Rambert unveil that Peaky Blinders: Rambert Dance, specially filmed on the Birmingham Hippodrome stage, will be aired on the BBC later in the year. This follows a limited cinema release with details announced soon.

Taking over both stage and screen, Rambert presents exhilarating and athletic dance combined with an electrifying and eclectic Peaky soundtrack from live on-stage musicians, to tell the story of love and loss at the end of the First World War through the lens of the Peaky Blinders and main protagonists Tommy Shelby and Grace Burgess.

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Rambert’s thrilling stage adaptation captures the Peaky story, with stunning performances from Rambert’s dancers and an iconic soundtrack from a live on-stage band. Having included exclusive plot and characters never seen on screen, Steven Knight opens the story in the trenches of The Somme in 1916 to tell a personal story of post-war industrial Birmingham, where the Shelby family navigate the decisions that determine their fate and Tommy is intoxicated by mysterious newcomer, Grace.

While Tommy is building his empire, Grace is operating as an undercover agent for Special Branch on a mission to get close to the heart of Tommy’s gang. As the story unfolds, hearts are broken and revenge is sought, in a script that is spoken by Birmingham-born writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah who played street preacher Jeremiah Jesus in the TV series.

This coincides with a band of live musicians led by musical director Yaron Engler and a specially commissioned score by Roman GianArthur, that includes iconic Peaky tracks from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Radiohead, Anna Calvi, The Last Shadow Puppets, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

Fans of Peaky Blinders may have spotted guest appearances of Rambert in Episode 4 of Season 5, when Tommy Shelby invites the dance company to perform at his wife’s birthday party.