The Midnight Bell, devised and choreographed by Matthew Bourne to music by Terry Davies and mimed to pre-recorded period songs, is billed as “intoxicated tales from darkest Soho” and shows Bourne’s sk ...
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Matthew Bourne, master dance theatre showman, has been successfully reinventing the major classical ballets over the last thirty years. His version of Romeo and Juliet, which premiered in 2019, is a f ...
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I can’t claim to be an afficionado of ballet at all. Indeed, in my 64 years on the planet I have never even seen a live ballet. But if Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes is anything to go by, then I have ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews The Red Shoes at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London EC2 What do Matthew Bourne, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger have in common? Bourne with his all-male Swan Lake and Powell a ...
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