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Beatrix Potter springs to life with the Royal Ballet
From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20071224
Author:SARAH FRATER
REVIEW Les Patineurs/Tales of Beatrix Potter .....
Royal Opera House SARAH FRATER
PIGS on pointe, dancing ducks and rabbits with rarefied manners. The Royal Ballet's Tales of Beatrix Potter will grate with many grown-ups but it's the sweetest of entertainment for young children. By that I mean under-10s, many of whom could be heard ooh-ing and ahh-ing at the Royal Opera House when The Royal Ballet performed Anthony Dowell's 1992 stage production of Frederick Ashton's 1971 dance film of Potter's books.
The production evokes the balmiest of pastoral dreamscapes, with Potter's woodland, river ...
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