Northern Ballet’s Gentleman Jack: brave but bland at Sadler’s Wells

Gemma Coutts in Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Gentleman Jack

Gemma Coutts and Saeka Shirai in Gentleman Jack

Northern Ballet in Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Gentleman Jack

Gemma Coutts and Rachael Gillespie in Gentleman Jack

Por Jonathan Gray, 20 mayo 2026

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“the ballet, performed with conviction by the entire cast, is brave and ambitious”

Crítica hecha desde Sadler's Wells Theatre, Londres el 19 mayo 2026

Gentleman Jack (Annabelle Lopez Ochoa)

Northern Ballet

Christopher Ash, Diseño de escena, Diseño de iluminación

Louise Flanagan, Diseño de vestuario

Northern Ballet Sinfonia

Gemma Coutts, Bailarín

Saeka Shirai, Bailarín

Rachael Gillespie, Bailarín

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Jonathan Gray

Jonathan Gray was born in Wales and studied at The Royal Ballet School, Leicester Polytechnic and Wimbledon School of Art. He was a member of the curatorial department of The Theatre Museum, London, from 1989 until 2005, and was editor of Dancing Times from 2008 until its closure in 2022.