Le Corsaire; Resolution review " ridiculously entertaining by Bidisha

Coliseum; the Place, LondonEnglish National Ballet delivers a bravura, gravity-defying Le Corsaire. At the Place, a faith-restoring showcase of new talent Le Corsaire is a 19th-century fever dream based on a Byron poem, in which Conrad the lovestruck pirate saves a girl, Medora, from a leering pasha and various pimps and traffickers. Inspired by Victorian orientalist oil paintings, the setting is knowingly overblown:…

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