Scottish Ballet's Cinderella could have a male or female lead

Scottish Ballet is retelling the classic fairytale Cinderella - with a man sometimes in the lead role.

Audiences attending the production of Cinders will not know until the curtain goes up whether the main character will be a man or a woman.

One version will be traditional - with a female Cinderella being swept off her feet by her Prince Charming.

But in the other, a male Cinders will be rescued from a life of drudgery by his princess.

The ballet, set in a draper's store at the turn of the 20th Century, will feature an art-nouveau inspired set with the traditional score by Sergei Prokofiev.

The ballet is being performed at Glasgow's Theatre Royal, before heading to Edinburgh's Festival Theatre, Her Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen, Eden Court Theatre in Inverness, and ending at Newcastle's Theatre Royal on 10 February.

Video edited by Catherine Lyst.

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