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Les Enfants Terribles review " Javier De Frutos teases out sex-games siblings' inner damage by Judith Mackrell

Barbican theatre, LondonWith eight Royal Ballet dancers enacting the claustrophobic world of an incestuous couple, De Frutos weaves intricate physical poetry around Jean Cocteau's text and Philip Glass's limiting scoreThe key to Javier De Frutos' production of Les Enfants Terribles lies in the new dance prologue which he's inserted before its opening act. Philip Glass's 1996 dance-opera is based on Jean Cocteau's nov…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM on January 29, 2017

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