Monday, June 6

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A review of the Royal Ballet in "Like Water for Chocolate" by Louise Levene in The Financial Times.

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Bob Crowley, whose phantasmagoric designs were the making of 2011’s Alice and who created powerful stage pictures for 2014’s The Winter’s Tale, was a natural choice to bring Esquivel’s dreamlike imagery to life. The near-ludicrous moment when sister Gertrudis (zestily danced by both Anna Rose O’Sullivan and Meaghan-Grace Hinkis) is driven wild by a large helping of quails in rose petal sauce and runs naked into the desert to be ravished mid-gallop by a passing revolutionary ought to be unstageable, but Crowley, with a bucking bronco puppet and a flesh-coloured leotard, somehow finds a way.