• La Fille mal gardée review – breezy and blissful

    Bristol Hippodrome
    Birmingham Royal Ballet’s heartfelt production of Frederick Ashton’s comic country tale is a delightCreated in a whirlwind month of rehearsals in 1960, Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée is probably the best-loved of English ballets. Based on a 1789 work by Jean Dauberval, it’s notionally set in France, but actually in an idealised England, which Ashton described as “a leafy pastorale of perpetual sunshine and the humming of bees”

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