Oh to be a kid again! And to be a kid nowadays! There was no such thing as the annual winter holiday pantomime when I was at school. I remember watching my mum and dad get all dressed up to …
Disney’s movies and theme parks were created for adults to feel young again, and MALEFICENT with its new twist, was created for everyone who enjoys this genre. Watching it one gains a whole new perspective on the fairy-tale innocence of …
In this huge production by the Royal Ballet the dancing is superb, especially by the two leads. It has an extremely ‘traditional’ feel about it and is a 2006 attempt to reconstruct the famous 1946 Oliver Messell production that reopened …
From the opening dramatic, crashing chords, expect the unexpected. Chilling, thrilling, shocking and darkly disturbing this is a glorious reworking by Matthew Bourne of the Perrault fairy tale.
This is the third of the big three Tchaikovsky ballets Bourne has …
The magnificent State Theatre was a stunning, very appropriate setting for this very chocolate-boxy work that demands very spectacular, lavish sets and costumes and magnificent dancing of the very difficult, showy traditional Petipa choreography (which actually sometimes was adapted rather