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A spectacular failure: Royal Ballet’s MaddAddam reviewed
From the magazineAdapting ballets out of plot-heavy novels set in fantasy locations and populated with multiple characters is a rubbish idea. The profound truth of such a proposal is forcefully borne out by the wretched muddle of Wayne McGregor’s MaddAddam, an over-inflated farrago drawn from a triptych of visionary fictions by Margaret Atwood. McGregor – hugely talented
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Avoids the breathless hype of so many podcasts: Finding Mr Fox reviewed
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Stimulating little exhibition: Scent and the Art of the pre-Raphaelites reviewed
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Dazzling: Marc-André Hamelin’s Hammerklavier
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