News

Quadrophenia review — The Who’s rock opera is reimagined as a Mod ballet
Pete Townshend’s original music forms the soundtrack to a sharp touring production with costuming by Paul Smith ...
Pete Townsend boldly turns The Who's Quadrophenia into A Mod Ballet
Will mods and rockers film Quadrophenia work as a modern ballet with an epic classical score based on The Who's icon album?
The Who meets ballet? A rousing revival of Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia brings mod culture to the stage
Paul Roberts’s adaptation of The Who’s 1973 double album brings themes of identity crisis and masculinity that are just as ...
Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia is a handsome reboot of The Who’s tragic rock opera
Rather than leaning into pop-culture cool, this new stage production at Sadler's Wells recognises its fragility ...
Quadrophenia, a Mod Ballet at Sadler's Wells review: 'you can’t look away'
The Who’s 1973 concept album Quadrophenia became a film, and Rachel Fuller’s orchestral arrangement accompanies the ballet: ...
As a fan of The Who, this wretched ‘mod ballet’ makes me want to weep
Paris Fitzpatrick as Jimmy and Serena McCall as ‘Mod Girl’ in Quadrophenia Credit: Alastair Muir The fundamental problem with ...
The Stage6d
Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia: A Mod Ballet review
A Mod Ballet – the rock opera gets a whizz-bang, crowd-pleasing dance makeover in director Rob Ashford's flashy production ...
The Independent6d
A mod ballet: the rousing revival of Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia
T he Who reinvigorated mod culture when they released Peter Townshend’s ambitious rock opera Quadrophenia as a double album in 1973. Its story – of a young mod called Jimmy in 1960s London ...
Veteran actors Leslie Ash and Phil Daniel reunite at premiere of ballet version of 1979 Brit flick Quadrophenia
VETERAN actors Leslie Ash and Phil Daniels look sharp at the premiere of a ballet version of Quadrophenia.  The pair, who ...