"When it was announced that the Royal's feathery blockbuster was being entrusted to Scarlett, eyebrows were raised. It wasn't his talent that was in question, it was his artistic unpredictability. He exploded on the scene in 2010, when, still a junior dancer, he created Asphodel Meadows, a beautiful one-act work that proclaimed his classical credentials. Yet he went on to wrong-foot audiences with dark and disturbing works such as Sweet Violets (2012), a gothic sex-and-death thriller about a Jack the Ripper serial killer, and Hansel and Gretel (2013), reimagined as a grotesque paedophile nightmare. But hey, he says, it's only make-believe. 'I was just trying to tell a good story. You don't have to worry about me.'"
Article source here:Arts Journal
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