Coliseum, LondonSir Frederick Ashton's Romeo and Juliet may be danced to the same Prokofiev score as Sir Kenneth MacMillan's, but beyond that the two versions are completely different. While MacMillan's 1965 production swaggers and bustles with vividly plotted action, Ashton's 1955 version distils the story down to a poetic, almost fairytale narrative " reminiscent at times of the Prokofiev Cinderella he choreog…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:50PM on July 13, 2011