As a theatre reviewer, I sometimes attend styles of shows that I am a general layperson of, ballet is one. I have seen two before, and both while visually good to watch, I generally didn't know much about the detail they were going into, maybe it didn't matter? Also occasionally when I attend shows with unfamiliar history, I might seek an advisor as my plus one, and as it happened by luck rather than selection, my plus one on this evening was a former ballet dancer. I should plunder their wealth of knowledge perhaps? Actually, I choose not to, but more on this later. Victoria is a new ballet from Cathy Marston, who over the years has illustrated through ballet a great many famous stories, from that of Jane Eyre, Elephant Man and Lady Chatterley's Lover . Here though, Marston brings her choreography to the life of Queen Victoria, taking her diaries as the very driving force of the production. It is, with a little help from the detailed programme story, a cleverly create...