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Giselle | Evening Standard | ★★★★★ review
4 October 2022
Giselle may centre on a love triangle between a peasant girl, her aristocrat lover and her rejected admirer, but the real stars of the show have long been the wilis, the ghostly jilted brides who rise from their graves to murder any man unfortunate enough to stumble across their path.
At the work’s 1841 premiere, newly invented wire work and gas lighting gave the wilis a glamorous supernatural sheen; in Akram Khan’s modern reimagining, clever shadowing and Japanese horror-film styling make them utterly terrifying.
Since its creation for ENB in 2016, Khan’s Giselle — set in a condemned garment factory on an industrial wasteland — has garnered universal praise, with occasional mutterings about its dramaturgy.
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