JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
Cinderella, Royal Albert Hall, London
English National Ballet have a ball with a classic fairy tale
Only ugly inside: Emma Hawes and Katja Khaniukova in Cinderella
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NADIA JOSEPH welcomes a survey of the role that TV played in the debate over apartheid and race relations in Britain
New releases from Rosa Walton, Paul McCartney, and Aidan Thorne & Jason Ball
RON JACOBS welcomes a sharp, intelligent and witty exposé of the corruption and right-wing politics that have taken over international professional football
ALEX HALL welcomes the memoir of a prominent British academic of Ugandan/Zimbabwean heritage
JONATHAN TAYLOR reviews a collection of short stories wherein news - and the absence of news - changes lives
THE MUCH-LOVED Cinderella is a story that’s been retold from cradle to grave, with its origins going back beyond the Brothers Grimm as far as ancient Greece.
A favourite panto perennial in Britain, it’s an international folklore classic that’s been adapted for film, television, opera, musical and ballet and undergone countless varied interpretations since its first staging in 1804.
Yet it was Sergei Prokofiev’s score, premiered in 1945 at the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow, that became the mainstay of future ballet productions and gave choreographers free creative rein with the storyline.
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