May 10, 2012
Honor and revenge in the samurai code culminating in a stunning mass suicide: in the aftermath of that bloody night in 1703, the facts of the actual 47 ronin incident became clouded by creative conjecture. Bunraku, Kabuki, and Noh theatre offered their own versions, collectively called the Chushingura. This collection of fictional interpretations leading up [...]
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May 5, 2012
Alice Pennefather has shared with us these lovely candy-coloured images of the general rehearsal cast at the Royal Ballet’s current revival of La Fille Mal Gardée, with Laura Morera and Ricardo Cervera in the leading roles. A date for your diaries: Ashton’s shiny-happy-people ballet is to be live streamed to cinemas worldwide on 16 May. [...]
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