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December 5th 2:00 pm

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Blitz (12A)

December 5th 7:45 pm

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Gladiator II (15)

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Autumn Term 2024: Parents & Wobblers (Monday)

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Autumn Term 2024: Chance to Dance (Monday 11.30am)

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Autumn Term 2024: Little Theatre Makers

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Autumn Term 2024: Thrive Contemporary Dance

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Ghost The Musical

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Dementia Friendly Tea Party

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Autumn Term 2024: Sing it Loud!

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Autumn Term 2024: ChiChi Fit

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show

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Autumn Term 2024: Make Your Mark Xtra

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Autumn Term 2024: Make Your Mark (AM)

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Autumn Term 2024: Beginners Big Jig

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Bah Humbug!

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How to Make a Million Before Grandma Dies (PG)

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Autumn Term 2024: Gentle Dance

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Conclave (12A)

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Armonico: Handel’s Messiah

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Talon: To the Limit Tour

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MFFC 2024/25: La Ronde (PG)

Kate Rusby – Winter Light Tour

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RBO: Cinderella

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Sleeping Beauty Pantomime – 2024/25

Orchestra of The Swan: Winter Solstice with Sunny Ormonde

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Small Things Like These (12A)

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All We Imagine as Light (15)

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A Christmas Carol

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Moana 2 (PG)

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Ballet Cymru: Romeo & Juliet

November 12th - November 13th

 

Critics’ Circle Award winning company, Ballet Cymru, present an extraordinary adaptation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece Romeo and Juliet.

Intense fighting, passionate duets and universal themes echo through dramatic and lyrical choreography. Exquisite costumes and extraordinary video projections create a world of danger and excitement where two young lovers are caught in an age-old feud.

Romeo and Juliet features choreography from company Directors Darius James OBE and Amy Doughty, and costumes by Georg Meyer-Wiel who has created costumes for some of the world’s leading companies including Rambert Dance Company and Australian Dance Theatre.

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Running time: 2 hours (including interval)

 

Details

Start:
November 12th
End:
November 13th
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Price:
£23.52 & £20.16
Members discounts apply
Under 26s £11.20
Price includes 12% booking fee
Show Times:
Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th November at 7.15pm

Event Reviews

  • Showtime! John Phillpott

    It's hard to imagine any dance company other than this one performing a more supremely heart-rending, agonisingly beautiful version of the William Shakespeare classic.

    Or match it, in fact. For this week we were treated to the welcome return to Malvern of the award-winning Ballet Cymru, a packed auditorium providing ample proof that here we were truly in the presence of breath-taking skills that are plainly powered by the tireless enthusiasm of the dancers.

    The music – by Sergei Prokofiev – is perhaps one of the most dramatic compositions ever employed as the soundtrack to the greatest story of love and loss ever told.

    Ironically – and shamefully - it is these days probably more associated with the tragedy of a different kind, after being hijacked by moron telly to accompany that festering pile of ritual humiliation and bullying The Apprentice.

    Thankfully, all thoughts of simpering, monosyllabic wannabees soon evaporated as this talented cast burst upon the stage, emerging through the mists like savage Germanic tribes falling upon doomed Roman legions.

    The opening fight sequences are balletic masterpieces, the swords flashing, parrying, sweeping and crashing together with resounding, metallic cracks. This is the grim reality of the blood feud between the warring Montagues and Capulets, with mindless, brutal gang violence transformed into high art.

    These scenes, reprised a number of times during the story, confiscate our senses as the whirling antagonists’ melee becomes a blur of shimmering blades and the lunging and kicking of sworn enemies.

    Of course, all this senseless and perpetual hatefulness has dire consequences for all concerned, which means that Mercutio must be killed, soon to be avenged by Romeo with the tit-for-tat slaying of his killer, Tybalt.

    It’s at this point that maybe our thoughts turn to present, with knife crime and murder being rife in some areas of our big cities. Nothing changes, does it?

    The stars of the show are, of course, the star-crossed lovers themselves, both of whom bring limitless pathos and poignancy to their respective roles, as the depths of their hopelessness and anguish become as bottomless pits of misery.

    The death scenes are particularly harrowing, arguably setting a new benchmark for how the climax to this much-performed perennial story should be presented.

    This was a stupendous performance from start to finish. Ballet Cymru is a stunningly gifted young company, and so we now look forward to their welcome return to Malvern in the not-too-distant future.


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