Gang rape ballet forms part of Covent Garden triple bill
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Your support makes all the difference.A ballet about gang rape is the centrepiece of a triple bill of works by Kenneth MacMillan to be performed by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House this month.
The Judas Tree, set near Canary Wharf in London's Docklands, was MacMillan's last work for The Royal Ballet and was premiered in 1992.
The Laurence Olivier Award-winning production is billed by The Royal Ballet as, "a highly charged ballet of betrayal and sexual violence, a resounding condemnation of humanity's flaws."
The other works in the MacMillan Triple Bill are Gloria and Danses Concertantes.
Gloria deals with the wasteful deaths in the First World War trenches, and was premiered in 1980.
Danses Concertantes was MacMillan's first commissioned work and the first time he worked with the stage designer Nicholas Georgiadis.
The triple bill takes place tonight, and on the 3, 8, 9, and 14 of May.
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