Gender games: Ham and Passion
Hilarious, shocking, ingenious, disconcerting, witty and worrying by turns.
Birmingham & Midlands
Jenna Roberts shines in Romeo and Juliet
Her awakening to love, her agonies at being forced to marry and her despair…marvellous
Birmingham Royal Ballet triumph in an Ashton double
The Dream and A Month in the Country. “A triumph.”
Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty – A Gothic Romance
It’s with the supernatural element that he has the most fun in this production full of classic Bourne touches
An Evening of Music and Dance
Pure joy. Birmingham Royal Ballet and The Royal Ballet Sinfonia at Symphony Hall
Shakespeare’s tempestuous love story
The Bolshoi Ballet in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s The Taming of the Shrew
A Winter Wonderland: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker
It may have been Black Friday, that ghastly and unnecessary American import, but there was nothing black at the Birmingham Hippodrome in the evening. With Christmas trees, tinsel and fairy lights decorating the foyers, it was the launch of the festive season for ballet-goers: Nutcracker time!