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Dance

Royal Ballet’s Don Quixote: Carlos Acosta is too brainy with this no-brain ballet

And there’s an English mildness to the production and costume. Marianela Nunez compensates, though

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

Don Quixote

The Royal Ballet, in rep until 22 January

One feels the pang of impending failure whenever the Royal Ballet ventures like a deluded Don Quixote into a periodic quest to stage that delightful old ballet named after him. Twice in recent years has it tilted at the windmill and flopped back, dazed and bruised. It never remembers, though, and here it goes a third time.

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