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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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?!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Totally agree. Just awful Matthew B. Swan lake!

No

No.

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.

Didnt a TV company do that at some point recently? Had the male play the downtrodden cinderfella character who got to marry a princess ??

Absolutely NOT ……

My school put on Cinderella with all the teachers and some 6th formers in the 70's. I remember the PE heart throb teacher was hilarious although I could not see the attraction myself. Hardly anything new.

PS at the risk of sounding rude, please research the true meaning of “woke” you may be surprised and learn something !

I’m laughing here, especially about Shakespeare comments, have you forgotten than back in those times ALL parts were played by men ??

Why not? Matthew Bournes Swan lake with an all male corps de ballet was amazing? Principal male dancers are so athletic and yet delicate in their movements.

Doesn’t bother me either way, ballet dancers are beautiful of both genders and I don’t care which part they play

NO!