The Judas Tree review – genius marred by misogyny

Royal Opera House, London
Not even the Royal Ballet’s finest can make the brutal subject matter of the choreographer’s final work palatableKenneth MacMillan choreographed The Judas Tree for the Royal Ballet in 1992, and it has baffled and dismayed audiences ever since. As MacMillan told Jann Parry, at the time the Observer’s dance critic: “There are things in me that are untapped and have come out in this ballet that I find frightening. This is a dark one.”Now 25 ye