It’s a sobering thought that had Marianela Nuñez joined the Paris Opéra Ballet at 16 instead of the Royal Ballet, she would have been compulsorily retired by now, thanks to the French company’s pension policy.
Sarah Kane’s Cleansed is a love story whose heart has been torn on barbed wire. Yes, that’s what it feels like. Sounds intense? Okay, welcome, you’re already in the zone. It’s also a pioneering account of queer and trans sensibility, a difficult play that I’ve seen several times since its premiere in 1998. Most productions appear on the spectrum between cool abstraction (James Macdonald) and hot literalism (Katie Mitchell).
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