"Like Water for Chocolate, which kicks off The Royal Ballet's 2025/26 season, is choreographer Christopher Wheeldon's third full-length work for the company, where he is Artistic Associate. The previous two, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (2011) and The Winter's Tale (2014), are complex, eye-filling spectacles, Alice in particular, full of ahhh-inducing visual trickery; but Like Water for Chocolate takes atmospheric stagecraft to an altogether different level."
"Based on the eponymous novel by the Mexican writer Laura Esquivel (you may have watched the hugely successful 1992 film adaptation), Like Water for Chocolate is a sprawling family saga, set in 1920s Mexico and centred on the thwarted love between Tita and Pedro. A host of fantastic characters populates it, the convoluted plot strung together by a series of cookery recipes, the whole liberally infused with magic realism."
"The title Like Water for Chocolate refers to the near-boiling point of water needed to make the perfect drinking chocolate in Mexico; when applied to people, it denotes intense passion and sexual desire on the verge of boiling over. So it is with Tita and Pedro. As the youngest daughter, Tita is not allowed to marry so she can look after her mother in her old age."
Like Water for Chocolate is Christopher Wheeldon's third full-length ballet for The Royal Ballet and opens the company's 2025/26 season. The ballet adapts Laura Esquivel's novel into a sprawling family saga set in 1920s Mexico, centred on the thwarted love between Tita and Pedro. The narrative uses cookery recipes as structural devices and fills the stage with fantastic characters and magic-realist elements. Atmospheric stagecraft, choreography, musical score, design, lighting, and accomplished dancing combine to create a sun-bathed, immersive universe. Themes include passion, sexual desire, family obligation, and the tension between tradition and personal longing.
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