Out and About: Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo at His Majesty’s Theatre

Out and About: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo at His Majesty’s Theatre

💡What: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte CarloWhen: Friday 19 June – Saturday 20 June 2026Where: His Majesty’s TheatreTickets: aberdeenperformingarts.comThe Trocks are coming to Aberdeen for the first time since 2003. Every dancer plays both ballerina and danseur, and the comedy only lands because the technique is genuinely there.Fresh from their 50th anniversary, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo have been doing this since 1974. The parody i…

A joyous, razor-sharp celebration of classical ballet - as dazzling in skill as it is in humour. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo plays at MK Theatre this week.

When I go to the theatre, if I don’t know the company or the work, I tend not to read up on it beforehand - I rather like the element of surprise. The name Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo gave me a fair clue that dance would be involved… but beyond that, I went in happily unprepared.The evening began with a spoken preamble delivered in a wonderfully heavy Latin accent. Sadly, I couldn’t catch a word of it, though the audience’s bursts of l…