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Day: March 12, 2018

A BLOODY BALLET HORROR STORY

A BLOODY BALLET HORROR STORY

Horror stories are rare in ballet, and “Frankenstein” (2016)  is one of the effective ones, in the vein of the old revenge plays ending with homicides and corpses all over the stage. I counted six who die by the final curtain, but I may have missed one or two. The work links posh gentility with lurid assaults. Thank London’s Royal Ballet for launching this work, adapted from Mary Shelley’s trail-blazing novel of two centuries ago—-very appropriate for marking, if not exactly…

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