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When the spectacle is an ugly sister

Cinderella,

Festival Theatre

Run ended

Wonderland,

Royal Lyceum

Run ended,

At Tramway, Glasgow, September 25-29

Dance lovers who came to see this presentation of Prokofiev's Cinderella, by the famous Mariinsky Ballet of St Petersburg in the expectation of an opulent and traditional production were in for something of a rude awakening. Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky and his design team have fashioned a modern staging of the fairytale which is by turns exhilarating, intriguing and downright perplexing.

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