"The Royal Ballet opened its 2025/26 season with the first revival of Christopher Wheeldon's 2022 Like Water for Chocolate; and as season openers go, I can't think of many ballets that would offer an audience more bang for their buck. Bob Crowley's stunning, atmospheric designs, Joby Talbot's sweeping, narrative musical score, magical cookery recipes, rampaging revolutionaries, a vengeful ghost, and an extraordinary coup de theatre finale, all framing a life-long forbidden love affair, plunge the audience into a colourful, exotic, sunlit universe"
"And then there's Christopher Wheeldon's choreography and overall vision making a coherent whole out of a multifaceted tale, the eponymous novel by the Mexican writer Laura Esquivel. It has its longueurs in Act I, but they are soon forgotten in the crisp, fast-moving Acts II and III. Like Water for Chocolate is a sprawling family saga set in 1920s Mexico, a country of rigid family diktats, smouldering passions and revolutionary ferment, all liberally dosed with magical realism and held together by cookery recipes"
The Royal Ballet revived Christopher Wheeldon's 2022 Like Water for Chocolate to open its 2025/26 season. The production features Bob Crowley's atmospheric designs and Joby Talbot's sweeping, narrative score, plus magical cookery recipes, revolutionaries, a vengeful ghost and a dramatic coup de theatre finale. The story follows Tita and Pedro's lifelong forbidden love within a sprawling 1920s Mexican family saga shaped by rigid family diktats, smouldering passions and revolutionary ferment. Wheeldon's choreography and overall vision create a coherent narrative despite some Act I longueurs; Acts II and III move with crisp, fast-paced clarity. The plot is complex, so reading a synopsis and character list beforehand helps clarify the action.
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