Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty Review | The Lowry | Manchester
Matthew Bourne is reintroducing audiences to Sleeping Beauty with a foray into the woods that reemerges as a layered modern gothic. Twisting the classic tale for his New Adventures production, but rooted in Tchaikovsky’s 1890 ballet, we dive into a surprisingly traditional retelling within a decadent Edwardian setting that places the story in the year the original ballet was released. When the childless King (Danny Reubens) and Queen (Kayla Collymore) are helped by the dark f