Actors Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory will feature in the opening weekend of the Royal Opera House’s annual contemporary arts festival Deloitte Ignite which starts tomorrow, appearing in a pair of short films. Damian has read the story of Prometheus from Ted Hughes’s Tales from Ovid, and Helen has read Yeats’ Leda and the Swan and The Mother of God for films to be screened to festival goers in the Paul Hamlyn Hall.
Lewis and McCrory have also lent their voices to short animations telling the stories of Prometheus and Leda which will also be screened in the opening weekend and online. The films were commissioned from recent graduates from Kingston University’s Illustration and Animation degree course.
Lewis said of the festival,
There’s a cross-pollination of art forms so we’ve got dance, singing, we have the visual arts… where better to bring all these art forms together and for you to come and enjoy yourself, please don’t miss it.
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