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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.T600647298Design 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. | |
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