Birmingham Royal Ballet: Cinderella " review by Judith Mackrell

Hippodrome, BirminghamFor any British choreographer, part of the challenge of creating a new Cinderella lies simply in dodging the sweet, funny but overarching shadow cast by Frederick Ashton's classic production for the Royal Ballet. Here, David Bintley doesn't even wait for Prokofiev's overture to finish before he stakes out his own, darker terrain. In a brief prologue he takes us to the grave of Cinderella's mothe…

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