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The plot convolutions of De Laclos’ classic novel, and a shortage of real passion, hold back David Nixon’s adaptation

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...

Kat B as Uncle Vincent the Cat in Dick Whittington. Photograph: Manuel Vazquez/The Guardian Kat B as Uncle Vincent the Cat in Dick Whittington. Photograph: Manuel Vazquez/The Guardian After a tough year for theatre, our chief critic celebrates the joy of the Christmas show, while five festive performers reveal how it feels to be waiting in the wings Sat 12 Dec 2020 05.00 EST Remember your first ever Christmas show – its sparkle and magic, its tinsel and thrall? I watched my first pantomime in 1978, though I couldn’t have named it as such. I was six, and still acclimatising to the sh...