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Rambert Triple Bill, Alhambra Theatre Bradford
Varied dance menu with agreeable aftertaste
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
“It has to be eclectic,” writes Rambert’s artistic director Benoit Swan Pouffer on the creation of this mixed programme.
“It has to feel like a buffet.” He’s achieved that objective with the company’s latest triple bill, which opens with Wayne McGregor’s PreSentient (2002).
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