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Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty archivePerrault'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 (Princess Aurora - some dates), Katrina Lyndon (Princess Aurora - some dates), Andrew Monaghan (Leo - some dates), Stephen Murray (Leo - some dates), Rory Macleod (Leo - some dates), Paris Fitzpatrick (Carabosse / Caradoc - some dates), Jackson Fisch (Carabosse / Caradoc - some dates), Ben Brown (Carabosse / Caradoc - some dates), Paris Fitzpatrick (Count Lilac - some dates), Dominic North (Count Lilac - some dates), Christopher Thomas (Count Lilac - some dates), Sophie Hurdley, Daisy May Kemp, Danny Reubens, Benjamin Barlow Bazeley, Stephanie Billers, Isaac Peter Bowry, Kayla Collymore, Jade Copas, Cameron Flynn, Shoko Ito, Kurumi Kamayachi, James Lovell, Enrique Ngbokota, Bryony Wood, Hannah Kremer, Perreira Franque

Creatives/Company

Music: Tchaikovsky
Company: New Adventures
Choreographer(s): Matthew Bourne (new scenario after Perrault and Petipa), Matthew Bourne
Director(s): Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Etta Murfitt (associate director), Neil Westmoreland (resident director)
Design: Lez Brotherston
Sound: Paul Groothuis
Lighting: Paule Constable

Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty

Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty (Dance or ballet) production archive for QTIX code T600647298. Details of all Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S01736353490

Archive Listings

18 Apr 23
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29 Apr 23
Theatre Royal
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
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11 Apr 23
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15 Apr 23
Festival Theatre
Edinburgh
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4 Apr 23
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8 Apr 23
Theatre Royal
Norwich, Norfolk
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21 Mar 23
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25 Mar 23
Marlowe Theatre
Canterbury, Kent
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14 Mar 23
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18 Mar 23
Mayflower Theatre
Southampton, Hampshire
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7 Mar 23
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11 Mar 23
Liverpool Empire Theatre
Liverpool, Merseyside
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28 Feb 23
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4 Mar 23
Bristol Hippodrome
Bristol, City of Bristol
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21 Feb 23
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24 Feb 23
Alhambra Theatre
Bradford, West Yorkshire
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14 Feb 23
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18 Feb 23
New Victoria Theatre
Woking, Surrey
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7 Feb 23
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11 Feb 23
Birmingham Hippodrome
Birmingham, West Midlands
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31 Jan 23
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4 Feb 23
Wales Millennium Centre
Cardiff, Glamorgan
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24 Jan 23
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28 Jan 23
Theatre Royal
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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17 Jan 23
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21 Jan 23
Milton Keynes Theatre
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
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29 Nov 22
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15 Jan 23
Sadler's Wells Theatre
Inner London, Greater London
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22 Nov 22
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26 Nov 22
The Lowry
Salford, Greater Manchester
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12 Nov 22
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19 Nov 22
Theatre Royal Plymouth
Plymouth, Devon
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