This festive offering from Scottish Ballet comes with a little twist. Cinders! follows the plot of Cinderella but the character’s gender is flipped on different nights, subsequently changing whether Cinders meets their prince or princess. Audiences don’t know until the curtains rise which version they will see.
On this particular night, Cinders is male, danced by Bruno Micchiardi, and dreams of his princess, guest principal Jessica Fyfe. Choreographer Christopher Hampson wanted to switch the genders to question who gets to be transformed within traditional stories. As the performance draws you in, you forget the roles have been switched. Point proven.
