Cordelia Braithwaite

Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes

Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes

★★★★☆ Moody and mesmerising

The Red Shoes, Matthew Bourne’s dark and twisted tale of obsession and love, jetés into the Festival Theatre on the coat-tails of 1940s Hollywood glamour and a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale.

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Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet

Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet

★★★★☆ Radical and inventive

Matthew Bourne’s radical reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for his New Adventures company, creates a ballet about the powerless and the powerful which highlights the madness of young love and the crazy things it forces us to do.

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Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty

Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty

★★★★☆ Enchanting

New Adventures’ magical production of Sleeping Beauty, at the Festival Theatre all week, tells the timeless tale of Princess Aurora with a modern gothic twist that has you hooked from the start.

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