The ballet's roots are in comédie sérieuse - meaning "true to life" - and it is true to life, in a rose-tinged, shiny photo album sort of way. Most young agricultural swains do not have the ...

La Fille mal gardée, Frederick Ashton’s unassuming tale of two villagers in love, could well be the most perfect romcom in any genre – so sun-kissed, sweet-natured and absurdly beguiling it makes Four ...

La Fille mal gardee is a rural rom-com that is easy to watch and easy to like. It was made 50 years ago by Frederick Ashton and in its half century year The Royal Ballet is rightly reviving his clever ...

One of the oldest, yet most enduringly loved, of all narrative ballets, La Fille mal gardée exudes the freshness, frothiness and sweetnatured innocence of a lovely summer day. Sir Frederick Ashton's ...

1 Review Roundup: CABARET AT THE KIT KAT CLUB Opens on Broadway 2 Review Roundup: HELL'S KITCHEN Opens on Broadway 3 Review Roundup: THE HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL Opens On Broadway One of the oldest, yet ...

La Fille mal gardée features a real live pony, so it’s probably the best ballet ever. Some friends of mine were so enamoured of the previous incumbent of the role, a snow-white scene stealer called ...

Saturday, October 15th 2:00PM Portland Metro Arts, 9003 SE Stark St., Portland, OR 97216 503-408-0604 Parts cast will be principal dancers and advanced corps parts. Dancers must have at least five ...

The sugar-averse may wish the choreographer had done without the (real) Shetland pony and (human) chorus line of chickens. Discovering that Ashton's cockerel was doing the John Cleese walk 20 years ...

"Fille is a treasure," says Monica Mason, Director of The Royal Ballet. Anyone who has seen this sunniest of ballets will certainly agree. With its origins in a work first seen in Bordeaux in 1789, La ...

Second up on the BRB’s tour is the perennial La Fille mal gardée. Frederick Ashton’s 1960s adaption of the 18th century French rural comedy, is all colour, pantomime and set pieces. Osbert Lancaster’s ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

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