Rambert turns Russell T Davies’s It’s a Sin into a new dance work, directed and choreographed by Benoit Swan Pouffer, with Davies and the Pet Shop Boys as executive producers.
Rambert brings its new dance work It’s a Sin to Sadler’s Wells Theatre in Angel from Tuesday 5 to Saturday 16 October 2027. In 2026 it became the first dance company in Britain to reach 100 years of performance.
Marie Rambert arrived in London in 1914 and opened a dance school in Kensington two years later. Her company gave its first original choreography in 1926. From 1946 its most frequent London performances were at Sadler’s Wells.
The new work is inspired by Russell T Davies’s Channel 4 series of the same name. It follows Ritchie, Roscoe, Colin and Jill through 1980s London as the AIDS crisis begins to change their lives. Rambert’s artistic director, Benoit Swan Pouffer, directs and choreographs.
The production opens at Aviva Studios in Manchester in February 2027, and this run is its London premiere. Sadler’s Wells is one of its co-producers, alongside Wales Millennium Centre, Capital Theatres in Edinburgh and Les Théâtres de la Ville in Luxembourg.
Davies, the Pet Shop Boys and Glyn Fussell are its executive producers. Rambert presents it with Factory International, and the Colwinston Charitable Trust’s 30th Anniversary Fund gave the production major support.