'They want to dream a little longer': the deep appeal of mermaids | Stage
Wherever you look – in cinemas, theatres, sculpture or down at your local lido – these magical creatures are bewitching an ever growing audience
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Wherever you look – in cinemas, theatres, sculpture or down at your local lido – these magical creatures are bewitching an ever growing audience
Northern Ballet’s handsome 2017 piece is equal parts libidinous and knotty, and can’t quite exorcise Kenneth MacMillan’s ghost
THE womanising exploits of Giacomo Casanova (1725-98) have all but erased from the public consciousness, more praiseworthy facets of the Venetian…
Vadim Muntagirov excelled in a celebration of American ballet while Darcey Bussell staged an impressive showcase of UK talent
Joseph Taylor and Antoinette Brooks-Daw in Dangerous Liaisons Credit: Emma Kauldhar Northern Ballet is back with a bang. Their first touring production since the pandemic began is a revival of David Nixon’s 2004 bodice-ripper, Dangerous Liaisons, also making its belated London premiere. It should satisfy anyone emerging from an intimacy-deprived lockdown. Staging Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s 18th-century epistolary novel, with its intricate interlocking plots and arch repartée, is a tough ask, even with the model of Christopher Hampton’s excellent 1985 theatrical adaptation. The ballet...