Details

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.

Cast/Performers

Ashley Shaw (Aurora), Cordelia Braithwaite (Lana), Dominic North (Leo - some dates), Chris Trenfield (Leo - some dates), Christopher Marney (Count Lilac), Liam Mower, Adam Maskell (Carabosse), Tom Clark (Caradoc), Will Bozier (King Benedict - some dates), Glenn Graham (King Benedict - some dates), Chris Trenfield (King Benedict - some dates), Pia Driver (Queen Eleanor - some dates), Nicole Kabera (Queen Eleanor - some dates), Katie Webb (Queen Eleanor - some dates), Daniel Collins, Jack Jones, Mari Kamata, Phil King, Dominic Lamb, Dena Lague, Katy Lowenhoff, Katrina Lyndon, Kate Lyons, Andrew Monaghan, Leon Moran, Danny Reubens

Creatives/Company

Music: Tchaikovsky
Company(s): New Adventures, New Adventures
Choreographer: Matthew Bourne (new scenario after Perrault and Petipa)
Director: Matthew Bourne
Sound: Paul Groothuis
Lighting: Paule Constable
Design: Lez Brotherston
Costume: Lez Brotherston