Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty

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Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty (Dance or ballet ) Tue, 20th November to Sat, 24th November Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty tickets at Theatre Royal, Norwich». From Tue, 11th December Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty tickets at Sadler's Wells Theatre, Inner London» 2 ticket suppliers found.

Dance or ballet

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. World Premiere Times and dates to be confirmed

Company

Music Tchaikovsky.

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