St Petersburg's Giselle sensitive to its drama.(News)

From: The Sunday Independent (South Africa) | Date: March 4, 2007 | Copyright information

Dymchik Saykeev, whose version of Giselle this is, does something in the role of Hilarion that sums up the diligent subtlety of the production. Giselle, having discovered that the aristocrat Count Albrecht has been, as they used to say, trifling with her affections, goes mad rather than getting mad or even.

Hilarion, the peasant boy with the uncouth air of someone unsure how to arrange the limbs that Saykeev gives him, knew Albrecht was a rotter. The village people and the quality alike stand around appalled as Giselle dips in and out of rationality. Hilarion - and this is the ...

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