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Dance

Northern Ballet has triumphed with Brontë: Jane Eyre reviewed

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Plus: a Kenneth MacMillan revival that makes you think and a Wayne McGregor premiere that’s a real shock<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>– it’s full of emotion!</span></p>

4 June 2016

9:00 AM

4 June 2016

9:00 AM

Jane Eyre

Northern Ballet, touring until 11 June

Obsidian Tear/The Invitation

Royal Opera House, in rep until 11 June

The difference between a poor ballet of the book (see the Royal Ballet’s Frankenstein) and a good one — indeed two — was cheeringly pointed up by Northern Ballet last week, when it unveiled an intensely imagined new Jane Eyre in Doncaster and gave the London première of the efficiently menacing 1984 that I reviewed last autumn.

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