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These Violent Delights review – Scottish Ballet’s feverish Romeo and Juliet is bold and unsettling

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These Violent Delights review – Scottish Ballet’s feverish Romeo and Juliet is bold and unsettling
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Edinburgh film festivalA taut, dreamlike reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy strips away romance in favour of dread, creating an engrossing and fiercely physical dance filmScottish Ballet, under the direction of Christopher Hampson and Oscar Sansom, gives us an engrossing dance riff on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The title alludes to Friar Lawrence saying, at the couple’s secret wedding ceremony, that “these violent delights have violent ends”, that their passion will consume itself in the

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