Rupert Christiansen

Distressingly vulgar: Royal Ballet’s Cinderella reviewed

The choreography is crisp but the staging resembles one of those weird American candy shops that infest Oxford Street

The Ugly Sisters didn’t spark, despite everyone’s best efforts – memories of Ashton and Robert Helpmann as this pair of misfits are still so vivid. Image: Tristram Kenton
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