Swan Lake (2.5/5)

Australian Ballet

(Choreography: Graeme Murphy)
Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House

19^th April 2008

Second time around Graeme Murphy’s dark interpretation of Swan Lake has lost some of its edge. May be the dancers had a bad night or possibly too much time has lapsed since the Charles and Diana saga from which Murphy took inspiration. Despite Odette’s mental disintegration providing moments of great anguish matched by macabre delight on the part of her antagonists the whole is not completely satisfying.