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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
Marianela Nuñez, Vadim Muntagirov and company shine – as do their costumes – in the Royal Ballet’s over-the-top new design of this intricate work
Plant life blooms everywhere you look in Frederick Ashton's earliest full-evening ballet. Review by Jenny Gilbert
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.
Marianela Nuñez is a Cinderella for the ages in this spruced-up, unmissable revival that is utterly enchanting