Gillian Freeman wrote the scenario for Kenneth MacMillan’s psychologically thrilling ballet Mayerling.
An intoxicating mix of dangerous desires, family secrets and political intrigue spirals into a royal disaster.
The Royal Ballet’s production of Mayerling opens on Monday 30th March and will run until 18th May at The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
Gillian was a writer and novelist from London. Creating the scenario for Mayerling was her Royal Ballet debut in 1978, and she returned in 1981 to create the scenario for MacMillan’s Isadora. Her novels include The Liberty Man, The Leader, The Alabaster Egg, But Nobody Lives in Bloomsbury, and The Leather Boys, which was recently republished in the UK by Dead Ink Books.
