ALICE'S
ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
The
Royal Ballet at Covent Garden
24.03.12
Finally
caught up with this ambitious new three-acter from the Royal Ballet.
Christopher
Weeldon's choreography is always workmanlike, often inventive, but
it's really Joby Talbot's score and the special effects and the
designs that make it such an enjoyable show.
The
moment when Alice opens the door and peers into the auditorium, and
the disjointed Cheshire Cat, are just two of the delights, and then
there are divertissements for all sorts of Tenniel-inspired
characters.
The
prologue, and its book-end epilogue, provide a context for the
surreal, hallucinatory nonsense in between.
A
late start to this midday matinée [stage crew problems] and both
Pennefather and Nunez replaced [injury]. Fine performances, though
from Nehemiah Kish and Beatriz Stix-Brunell as The Knave of Hearts
and Alice. Barry Wordsworth in the pit.
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