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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20060101
Author:Louise levene

Pinocchio

Will Tuckett's Pinocchio, for Covent Garden's Linbury Studio Theatre, had been shaping up as the dance show of the season. His 2002 hit The Wind in the Willows was a delight. Pinocchio, with the same design team, composer and choreographer, along with many of the same performers, had everything going for it except, perhaps, its story and its central character.

Carlo Collodi's rambling 1882 fable is about a boy's journey from heedless, selfish childhood to moral maturity. This is not in itself a bad set-up (it did Great Expectations no harm), but such a heavy- duty message needs to ...

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