Would you like to see Cinderella performed by a male dancer?

I would like the characters to be as portrayed. Men playing men, women playing women, I have always thought it strange that women play princes. I would not like to a male dancing cinderella only if it was a Comical version of the story.

Ridiculous idea. Why is there this movement to change everything, especially removing female roles, as a man it really winds me up.

At times it makes me glad I'm as old as I am. By the time my great granddaughters reach adulthood God knows what the world will be like.

In Panto weren't the ugly sisters always played by men?
So, no difference in ballet.

I would like to see it if there is a male and a female rôle. I don’t want to see two heroes or two heroines. They should have gone for two Ugly brothers or one of each as well.

grannyro

Cinderella is not a true story so it is open to any interpretation. I also saw Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake and it was incredible so yes, I would go.

It is based on a true story but is a much older tale than most people realise 🙂

In fact, most of these 'fairy' tales have a true story behind them although they have been changed and embellished over time.

Think, for chikdren, that to do an alternative version to the original, you should know the original well, first. Many fairy tales give a glimpse of times past where context was different.

Loved a modern variation of G snd S Mikado but I was glad to see the original context first. Same with some Shakespeare eg West Side Story.

I wouldn't have any problem at all.

For yonks we've had men in women's clothing like Pantomime stuff etc. so why not a man as Cinders?!

Seems a bit of prejudice from those not knowing the full story, the princess wears the dress but in one version rescues the male Cinders

I always thought the principal boy played by a girl was to get all the dads to attend as well. To ogle a nice bit of bottom and thigh.
These stories have come down through the ages will they be remembered in years to come if we start changing the sex of the main character roles.

Andrew Lloyd Webbers Cinderella had a twist at the end in a,similar vein.

Absolutely Callistemon21! Also please forgive me for a slight diversion, but Rossini’s opera La Cenerentola (heaving with lively ensembles) has a wicked stepfather and a ‘good-fairy’ godfather instead of the female figures we’re used to in U.K.

Marilla

Scottish Ballet have announced there will a new twist in their performances of Cinderella. Audiences will not know until the curtain rises whether they will see a female dancing the role as Cinderella or a male dancer playing Cinders.

On these terms I would not want to buy a ticket.

I don't think the company has a right to decide which version I will be seeing.

It may well be an interesting experiment, and certainly fairy tales and the theatre performances that use them as their plot have probably always been altered a little to tune in with the attitudes of the day.

If I could chose myself either to go and see the new version or the more conventional one then I might well choose to see the modern version.

OMG. Is nothing sacred. ? Cinderella is a girl for heavens sake ! 🤢🤮😖

Not for me thanks

A few years ago I saw Mathew Bournes version of swan lake , where all the dancers were male . It was fabulous . I’m certain a male Cinderella could be just as entertaining as a female.

No. Cinderella is a classic tale. Cinders is a girl. The Prince is a boy. Classic girl meets boy story. I find the changing of history to suit a few people offensive.

Sarahr

No. Cinderella is a classic tale. Cinders is a girl. The Prince is a boy. Classic girl meets boy story. I find the changing of history to suit a few people offensive.

In a world where women had to sit passively by waiting for a man to show them attention. We have moved on from that.

Plenty of examples of British royal princesses (and princes) marrying commoners. True they aren't men who were working as drudges but they are still commoners.

I want to be given the choice of what I’m paying for, not fobbed off with someone else’s choice.
Although I would only pay to see Cinderella as a girl, because that’s the story, if people want to pay for their own preference, that’s up to them.
Where else would you expect people to go and pay for something they don’t want to see?

No my kind of thing no. I can’t see what the point is. How many men have been left at home doing the housework while the women were out at a party.

A tradition is not a 'stereotype' and a classical ballet is not a pantomime. More scope, originality and wonderful creativity are all possible within the tradition. Want new roles? Find new stories. In Shakespeare's day men played women's roles because women were suppressed. Is something weirdly similar happening by the back door now? I like the old male and female roles, as given to us by Mother Nature. Please leave the great majority of us who are happy with our birth-gender the culture that we love. If anyone wants to pretend to be a different gender then they have the liberty to do that in their own lives (and own culture) and I do not have a problem. But in hundreds of years from now their bones will tell the biological truth.

I want to be given the choice of what I’m paying for, not fobbed off with someone else’s choice.

That would be my objection to this production. I'm not against the switch of oppressed and saviour characters, but I'd definitely want to know which one I was paying to see. I don't think the producers can be that confident of support for the switched roles version which is why they're not prepared to operate the versions transparently. Perhaps if ticket sales are slow they'll reconsider this approach.

Freya5

Cinderella is a strong female, so no I wouldn't waste my money ey. Why can't they think up something original, instead of changing things to suit their woke agenda. Of course they have no imaginative writers nowadays,see disney and black snow. All these years traditional fairy tales have stood the test of time, loved by all, so now into confusing children, which of course is their aim.

Why do all women have to be a strong female these days?
In real life, she might have been left with all sorts of issues after a cruel childhood. She had no choice.

undines I may have misunderstood you and if so I apologise. In this production, from what I read, the male character will be danced by the male in appropriate costume, likewise the female character. There isn't to be any 'cross dressing' or transgendering. It's just in one version the cinderella character will be an oppressed male rescued by his princess, while the other version will be the traditional oppressed female rescued by her prince.
I do agree with your final sentence, science will win out every time.

Chestnut

Well it's up to people to vote by going or not going. I wouldn't go, I like my fairy stories traditional. Let's see if it's another case of 'go woke, go broke'.

Why is it "woke"? A ridiculous word for a ridiculous concept. The world has always changed, from the moment of its inception, to now, and will continue to do so! It seems to me that things are only "woke" to people that the change has no direct connection too. For instance equally rights for women wasn't considered woke by women, but you can bet you life if would have been by men, had that concept been around then! Just as equal rights for gay and trans people isn't considered woke by gay and trans people, but is by far too many straight and cis people. This version of Cinderella is controversial but is simply progressive. The musical Hair was considered controversial nd then progressive when is opened, but is now seen as a classic. Times change! Stick the word "woke" back where it belongs, please!

And wouldn’t a Princess rescuing a downtrodden chap be a strong female role🙄