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[dirac]

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Winter's Tale is much more subtle and mysterious – how do you transcribe it into mime and dance – it's all words, it'll fall apart.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, I guess, but it is hard to see this working out successfully. You also have a striking difference in tone between the first and second halves of the play that will have to be resolved in dance, probably mostly dance, given the modern low tolerance for mime.

[mussel]

A movie with the same title starring Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, and Will Smith... will be released this fall, if it becomes a hit, it may give the ballet a publicity boost.

[sandik]

mussel, on 15 March 2013 - 08:57 AM, said:

A movie with the same title starring Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, and Will Smith... will be released this fall, if it becomes a hit, it may give the ballet a publicity boost.

But it's not anything to do with the original play (even though it includes Eva Marie Saint!)

[JMcN]

mussel, on 13 March 2013 - 03:59 PM, said:

Is this going to be RB's first DQ, ever?  I don't recall RB ever performed DQ.

The RB had Baryshnikov's production some years ago.  In the 90s I saw THE most wonderful performance with Miyako Yoshida (then still with BRB) and Tetsuya Kumakawa.  It was also shown in the early noughties.

[Jane Simpson]

The version shown in 2001 was  a version of Nureyev's production  - Ross Stretton opened his one and only RB season with it.