Birmingham Royal Ballet - La Fille mal gardee
From: Thursday, 27th October 2011
To: Saturday, 29 October 2011
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Karen Bussell - 27 October 2011
Second up on the BRB’s tour is the perennial La Fille mal gardée.
Frederick Ashton’s 1960s adaption of the 18th century French rural comedy, is all colour, pantomime and set pieces.
Philip Ellis again keeps a tight rein on the Royal Ballet Sinfonia to milk the light-heartedness from John Lanchbery’s arrangement of Ferdinand Herold’s score.
Osbert Lancaster’s set is pretty, classical and with just enough detail to amuse – bloomers drying alongside hams in the farmhouse beams and crows nailed to the barn wall – should the audience’s eyes happen to wander.
But that is only really likely in the second act which is something of a procession of showcases with an excellent corps de ballet crowding the stage and executing, among others, a superb maypole dance between.
Convincingly teenage Lise (Nao Sakuma delicate and ubiquitous – what stamina) is in love with farm boy Colas (Iain Mackay more than redeeming himself from an oddly jarring perfo...
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