New Adventures – Reel Adventures festival: Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet
★★★★✰ Performances across the board are stupendous, reminding us that interpretations evolve and change, and do not disappoint.
New Adventures – Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet – London
★★★✰✰ Our setting is the Verona Institute in the near future. Here disturbed young people have been locked up for an opaque purpose under the eye of a sadistic jailer… A traumatised Juliet meets a troubled Romeo, and it ends as badly as you might expect.
New Adventures – Matthew Bourne’s Early Adventures – London
★★★★✰ Matthew Bourne celebrates the 30th anniversary of his own company at the same time as Tate Britain has launched “Queer British Art 1861-1967” to mark the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality. “Early Adventures” could be a theatrical coda to the exhibition…
Encore Dance Company – Tour 2015: De Part Ed, Intermezzo, Don Quixote pdd, Testament, Untouchable Void – London
High spirits saturated this programme from Encore Dance, the graduate company of Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.
