Work type: Dance

Sir Peter Wright’s production returns to Birmingham Royal Ballet after an absence of five years, with Céline Gittens and Brandon Lawrence sharing great chemistry. 

Bleak adaptations of ballet classics are somewhat of a ballet trend at present, with Matthew Bourne’s gothic Sleeping Beauty playing to sell out audiences over Christmas 

I felt that the choreography as performed by these excellent dancers was enough to carry the story without such excessive use of text and animation

Over twenty-two vignettes, some long, others short, a cast of thirty pedestrianizes ballet. The work suggests that who you are matters more than what you do. 

Peaky Blinders turned into dance theatre makes for powerful and spectacular staging, both visually and aurally and is unlikely to inspire an insipid response