Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, LondonFor the subject of his first full-evening ballet, Liam Scarlett takes the Brothers Grimm fairytale Hansel and Gretel, about two children imprisoned by a witch after their parents have abandoned them in the forest " a theme all too darkly resonant, given the Josef Fritzl case and the recent events in Cleveland. Transposing the story from Germany to the US and a 50s, film-noir s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM on May 11, 2013