{"id":22729,"date":"2022-09-27T13:57:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T11:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1712616"},"modified":"2022-09-27T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T12:27:09","slug":"peaky-blinders-boss-wants-dance-show-to-get-tv-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/peaky-blinders-boss-wants-dance-show-to-get-tv-broadcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaky Blinders boss wants dance show to get TV broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 27 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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From this week, Peaky Blinders<\/a> fans will have the chance to see the Birmingham gangsters as they\u2019ve never seen them before \u2013 in a brand new dance theatre show.<\/p>\n

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Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby is a collaboration between series boss Steven Knight and contemporary dance company Rambert, and retells the story of Tommy\u2019s love affair with Grace through the medium of dance.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The show opens tonight (Tuesday 27th September) at the Birmingham Hippodrome before moving to Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre in London from 12th October and then embarking on a nationwide tour in 2023 \u2013 and Knight has confirmed that he also has plans to bring the performance to an even wider audience.<\/p>

Asked if he thought a television broadcast of the show was likely at some point in the future, Knight exclusively told RadioTimes.com<\/a>, \u201cYes, we\u2019re working on that. And we want to put that together because I think it will work really well. So yeah, a live recording of the show which would be broadcast for people!\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking about the content of the show itself, Knight explained that it would tell a story familiar to viewers of the show but that he hoped it would appeal across the board \u2013 both to Peaky Blinders fans who don\u2019t think they like dance, and to dance fans who don\u2019t think they like Peaky Blinders.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to start it before the first episode of season 1 so that we see them at the end of the war,\u201d he said of the story. \u201cAnd sort of get a visual explanation as to why they became what they became. And then tell the story of Tommy and Grace, through dance.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so I just sat and wrote what the scenes looked like: so it\u2019s trenches, and this happens, and then they move like this, and this happened. And you\u2019re sort of liberated because you\u2019re not in reality, you\u2019re not having to obey the rules of the real world.<\/p>\n