Wen Hui: Red review " China's Cultural Revolution revisited
Purcell Room, LondonThe Beijing-based choreographer offers a fascinating reappraisal of a propagandist balletIn the first years of China's Cultural Revolution, there were only eight "model plays" that were officially sanctioned by the regime and performed again and again across the country: five operas, two ballets and a symphony. One of those ballets, The Red Detachment of Women, about a peasant girl's rise in the c…