Despite its widespread rating as one of his masterpieces, Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella is chock full of knots, gaps and stumbling blocks – all of which the Royal Ballet’s new production throws into relief. Ashton isn’t altogether to blame: Prokofiev’s graphic score dictates an excessive amount of time given over to knockabout for the Ugly Sisters
PATRICK MARMION: Julius Caesar at the RSC is a curious offering, throwing as it does a cast of rookies and debutantes to the lions in another solemnly PC vision of the Bard.