Ballet Reviews: Highland Fling

I went into this one knowing very little about it.   I'm not sure I liked the story.  It's about a young Glaswegian man who becomes obsessed with a fairy he saw while on pills.   In the end his obsession kills him.   Having said that, it was very interesting and very cleverly done.   I've never seen ballet mixed with gritty that way before.   The dancing was really clever too.   Somehow the dancers managed to use ballet to convey drunken stumbling out of bars and crap dancing.   And it really worked.   There was also tartan absolutely everywhere.   Not sure I really liked that either.   We get that it's Scotland, there's no need to ram it down our throats.   Still, a really interesting and clever show.