Laurencia, with Osipova and Vasiliev, Mikhailovsky Ballet, London Coliseum, April 2013
Posted on 3 April 2013Soviet Realism meets Don Quixote, with the good Don replaced by an evil Commander whom the peasants destroy. He abducts the beautiful Laurencia, imprisoning her lover Frondoso, and there is a nasty sexual assault by two soldiers on a peasant named Jacinta. The women are both badly used and emerge with dirty torn skirts, but …