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Summary:A special studio performance with documentary introduction.
Description:The Judas Tree was Kenneth Macmillan's last choreography. Created on the Royal Ballet's new Russian star, Irek Mukhamedov, it was a precis of all that MacMillan had become renowned for, with graphic scenes of rape, murder, a hanging, all couched in the recognisable language of classical ballet.
Critics were nonplussed; now, on its return to the repertory, it still gives rise to admiration and shock, in equal parts.