Manon review " the Royal Ballet brings beauty to sordid snake pits of Paris
Royal Opera House, LondonKenneth MacMillan's journey into a world of darkness is performed with consummate craft by a superb company In the 1970s Kenneth MacMillan snatched ballet from the land of myths and fairytales and thrust it into worlds of psychological darkness, with complex, unsympathetic characters that dancers love to get their teeth into. Does Manon, a ballet about prostitution and sexual violence, come d…