Directed and Choreographed by Matthew Bourne Orchestrated by Terry Davies Review by Dominic Corr The King's Theatre ★★★★ For a tale draped in crimson and ruby, the overwhelming shade of The Red Shoes tale has always been that of a symbolic sharpness of emerald: a green with envy that cuts through any of the gorgeous … Continue reading Review: The Red Shoes – The King’s Theatre, Glasgow
Produced by Dance Consortium Review by Marina Funcasta ★★★★ Canada’s leading dance company, Ballet British Columbia, has been touring two pieces, Frontier and Passing, choreographed by Crystal Pite and Johan Inger, respectively. Though critics have seemed to strongly prefer one over the other, I can certainly say that both pieces were far-reaching and spoke to … Continue reading Review: Ballet BC – The Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Choreography by Christopher Hampson CBE Music by Sergei Prokofiev Conducted by Wolfgang Heinz Tickets from£15.00 ★★★★ The enduring power of Cinderella, often seen as the definitive European fairytale, certainly retains a presence as it is the most performed winter show this year in Scotland across Pantomime, Comedy, and now, Ballet. The story of a young individual … Continue reading Scottish Ballet: Cinders! – Theatre Royal, Glasgow
https://youtu.be/n81Qzaowc9A Directed and Choreography by Matthew Bourne Music by Sergei Prokofiev Tickets from £28.50 ★★★★ Few things push us to extremes other than love. Whether viewed as a weakness, a strength, an eternal yearning which completes us, or a distraction, its various forms will never feel the same for any two people – so the … Continue reading Matthew Bourne’s: Romeo + Juliet – Festival Theatre
https://youtu.be/Mo21M6gh2TM Choreography and Direction by William Tuckett (Then & Now) Choreography and Direction by Mthuthuzeli November (Nina: By Whatever Means) ★★★★★ All good things come to those who wait. And the audiences of Edinburgh have been patient in their appreciation and fervour for Ballet Black, who after a significant delay, return to the city at … Continue reading Ballet Black: Pioneers – Festival Theatre
https://youtu.be/VFZ8dxsoFlQ Direction and Choreography by Matthew Bourne Composed by Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky ★★★★★ After a decade of slumber, now celebrating one hundred and fifty performances: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty has been weaving an intense sense of prestige and grace throughout theatres. The Brothers Grimm’s tale of dark fairies, thorns and eternal slumbers has been transformed into a … Continue reading Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty – Festival Theatre
https://youtu.be/fdxajUFO8vI Written by Steven Knight Directed & Choreographed by Benoit Swan Pouffer ★★★★ The Festival Theatre is under new management folks, and they’re not the type you’d want to raise a complaint with. Not that you’d have any with the venue’s newest show, as Edinburgh welcomes the highly anticipated Rambert’s Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas … Continue reading Rambert: Peaky Blinders – Festival Theatre
https://youtu.be/R-SFzgHlMSs Choreography by Christopher Hampson Composition by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ★★★★ In the intrusive darkness, something magical glitters in the Festival Theatre stage light. Amidst the protrusions of silhouetted ice, a familiar being stirs triumphantly again after a three-year slumber away from the stage. Scottish Ballet makes a grand return to the Christmas season, with an … Continue reading The Snow Queen – Festival Theatre
Artistic Direction by Tory Dobrin Executive Direction by Liz Harler ★★★★ What is it they say: there’s method in the madness? For The Trocks – there’s method in the laughter. For just shy of fifty years, though not looking a day over forty-nine, the all-male comedy ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has … Continue reading The Trocks: Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo – Festival Theatre
Direction & Choreography by Morgann Runacre-Temple & Jessica Wright Dramaturgy & Written text by James Jeff ★★★★★ What separates us from our electronic companions? If all it is, is flesh, then perhaps it’s time we reviewed the situation. Narratives of falling in love with a composite human, a homunculus, are as old as literature. But … Continue reading Coppélia – Festival Theatre
