Birmingham Royal Ballet's summer spectacular
The Birmingham Royal Ballet's programme features a sizzling taste of Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy and Noël Coward as part of their summer celebration
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1. The Dream
Frederick Ashton's The Dream is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.
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2. Mendelsson soundtrack
Ashton's witty choreography is soundtracked by Felix Mendelsson's tuneful, instantly recognisable music from A Midsummer Night's Dream
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3. Oberon's revenge
Having argued with beautiful Titania, Oberon, king of the fairies, seeks a suitable revenge and drips a potion into Titania's eyes causing her to fall in love with the first person she sees
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4. The Grand Tour
The Grand Tour takes us back to the 1920s as our heroine joins Noël Coward, Gertrude Stein and George Bernard Shaw on a transatlantic journey to Europe. But these famous faces aren't necessarily the friendliest of shipmates.
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5. Life on the high seas
Add stowaways and a rather handsome Chief Steward into the mix and things might get a little... complicated.
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6. Joe Layton
Choreographer American Joe Layton's The Grand Tour is a funny take on the eccentric celebrities that populated England's stages, screens and newspapers in the 1920s. Accompanied by unique orchestral renditions of Noël Coward songs, The Grand Tour makes a long-overdue return to the stage.
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7. Far From The Madding Crowd
With an evocative score by Paul Reade and choreography David Bintley, Far From The Madding Crowd, an adaption of Thomas Hardy's novel, is a story of lust, deceit and murder.
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8. Bathsheba Everdene
At the centre of the story is Bathsheba Everdene whose beauty enchants three men - but only one can claim her as his own.
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9. Hardy's tale of love and betrayal
Their love for Bathsheba Everdene will change the three men's lives for ever.