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 ...
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 ...