Raven Girl – Review by Luke Jennings for the Observer

Sarah Lamb in Raven Girl. Photograph: Marilyn Kingwill

Sarah Lamb in Raven Girl. Photograph: Marilyn Kingwill

The following is an excerpt from a review by Luke Jennings for the Guardian/Observer. The original review can be read in its entirety here.

When the choreographer Wayne McGregor and the novelist Audrey Niffenegger decided to collaborate on "a new fairytale" for the Royal Ballet, it was a leap in the dark for both of them. He had never created a narrative work; she had never written for the dance stage. The result, Raven Girl, is a piece of theatre which, if flawed, glimmers with entrancing novelty and inventiveness.

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