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Queensland Ballet's Dream: pretty fairytale or dark drama?

Kohei Iwamoto as Puck in Liam Scarlett's A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Queensland Ballet in Liam Scarlett's A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Lucy Green as Titania and Rian Thompson as Bottom in Liam Scarlett's A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Lucy Green as Titania and Joel Woellner as Oberon in Liam Scarlett's A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Queensland Ballet in Liam Scarlett's A Midsummer Night's Dream
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“awe-inspiring gravitas and an unsettling propensity to materialise in the shadows”
Reviewed at QPAC: Playhouse, Brisbane on 12 April 2024
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Liam Scarlett)
Queensland Ballet
Nigel Gaynor, Conductor
Tracy Grant Lord, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Kendall Smith, Lighting Designer
Camerata – Queensland's Chamber Orchestra
Lucy Green, Dancer
Joel Woellner, Dancer
Kohei Iwamoto, Dancer
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*****
Scarlett’s Frankenstein returns to the San Francisco Ballet stage
****1
Drawing from tradition but not in thrall to it: London City Ballet
****1
Swan Lake: double debuts at the Royal Ballet
****1
The Royal Ballet's Swan Lake offers much to admire
****1
Spirit of the arts felt as Swan Lake returns to Covent Garden
****1
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