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Article: Reviews: Northern Ballet Theatre Romeo and Juliet : Last night's first night
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- June 28, 2001
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Northern Ballet Theatre Romeo and Juliet
Edinburgh Festival Theatre
HAVING been dogged by ill-fortune for the past 18 months, it
comes as no small relief to discover Northern Ballet Theatre can
still come up with the goods.
Losing two artistic directors in as many years can't be easy,
neither can finding your offices and costume department ravaged by
fire. And as for their disastrous dabbling with gothic horror,
Jekyll and Hyde, the less said the better.
But, as the great mastermind behind the company's current
production once said, all's well that ends well.
Where choreographer Massimo Moricone failed to deliver a
believable adaptation of Stevenson, his re-working of Shakespeare is ...