A Streetcar Named Desire; Sweet Violets – review

Sadler's Wells; Royal Opera House, LondonWatching the second cast of Liam Scarlett's Sweet Violets at the Royal Opera House last week I was reminded of George Balanchine's dictum that "there are no mothers-in-law in ballet". What the choreographer meant was that there are limits to the language of movement. That sometimes relationships and backstories have to be conveyed by other means. Sweet Violets, a story-ballet about the painter Walter Sickert and his obsession with the Jack the Ripper murd...

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