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.
"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"
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