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TownEdinburgh
CountyEdinburgh
From11th April 2023
To15th April 2023
Festival Theatre (V600)
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  • Date of change: 13 Jun 22 - T600647298

Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty

Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty

Work:: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty (S01736353490)

Perrault's timeless fairy tale, about a young girl cursed to sleep for one hundred years, was turned into a legendary ballet by choreographer, Marius Petipa, in 1890. Bourne takes this as his starting point, setting the Christening of Aurora, the story's heroine, in the year of the ballets first performance; the height of the Fin-de-Siecle period when fairies, vampires and decadent opulence fed the gothic imagination. As Aurora grows into a young woman, we move forwards in time to the more rigid, uptight Edwardian era; a mythical golden age of long summer afternoons, croquet on the lawn and new dance crazes. Years later, awakening from her century long slumber, Aurora finds herself in the modern day; a world more mysterious and wonderful than any Fairy story! Matthew Bourne's haunting new scenario is a gothic tale for all ages; the traditional tale of good vs. evil and rebirth is turned upside-down, creating a supernatural love story, across the decades, that even the passage of time itself cannot hinder.
Music Tchaikovsky
Company New Adventures
Choreographer Matthew Bourne (new scenario after Perrault and Petipa)
Director Matthew Bourne

Production:: (T600647298)

Design Lez Brotherston
Director Matthew Bourne
Choreographer Matthew Bourne
Sound Paul Groothuis
Lighting Paule Constable
Director Etta Murfitt (associate director)
Director Neil Westmoreland (resident director)
Performer Ashley Shaw (Princess Aurora - some dates)
Performer Katrina Lyndon (Princess Aurora - some dates)
Performer Andrew Monaghan (Leo - some dates)
Performer Stephen Murray (Leo - some dates)
Performer Rory Macleod (Leo - some dates)
Performer Paris Fitzpatrick (Carabosse / Caradoc - some dates)
Performer Jackson Fisch (Carabosse / Caradoc - some dates)
Performer Ben Brown (Carabosse / Caradoc - some dates)
Performer Paris Fitzpatrick (Count Lilac - some dates)
Performer Dominic North (Count Lilac - some dates)
Performer Christopher Thomas (Count Lilac - some dates)
Performer Sophie Hurdley
Performer Daisy May Kemp
Performer Danny Reubens
Performer Benjamin Barlow Bazeley
Performer Stephanie Billers
Performer Isaac Peter Bowry
Performer Kayla Collymore
Performer Jade Copas
Performer Cameron Flynn
Performer Shoko Ito
Performer Kurumi Kamayachi
Performer James Lovell
Performer Enrique Ngbokota
Performer Bryony Wood
Performer Hannah Kremer
Performer Perreira Franque

Listing:: L0951342086




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