Royal Ballet: The Unknown Soldier / Infra / Symphony in C review " bittersweet beauty
Royal Opera House, LondonAlastair Marriott's evocation of conflict is caught between gracefulness and tragedy while Wayne McGregor and George Balanchine still shine'He was lying there in a pool of blood. When we got to him, he said: 'Shoot me.'" The words of Harry Patch, the last surviving British soldier of the first world war before his death in 2009, are at the centre of Alastair Marriott's The Unknown Soldier. Th…