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 (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