Adventures in Motion Pictures Come to an End???

Producer Katharine Dore is apparently considering closing down the multi award-winning dance company Adventures in Motion Pictures for good. She and director/choreographer Matthew Bourne went their separate ways in 2001 after nearly 15 years and a string of huge international successes including The Car Man, Highland Fling and, most famously, the all-male Swan Lake (See News, 29 Aug 2001). Since then, Bourne has formed his own New Adventures outfit which just scooped two Oliviers for Play Without Words and has had a hit with a reincarnation of Nutcracker!, and Dore has focused her own KD Management company on theatrical productions (including the revival of Arsenic and Old Lace which opens in the West End next week) while, at the same time, maintaining AMP's past productions for revival. However, industry newspaper The Stage reports today that, without new work, Dore is having trouble continuing to finance AMP and that it is putting strain on her own company. She claims Bourne's mounting of Nutcracker! - originally an AMP production - under his New Adventures guise is against the spirit of their agreement and has worsened the problem with AMP shareholders. Bourne, on the other hand, says AMP does not hold the rights to Nutcracker! and that the new production is substantially revised with new designs, choreography and scenarios (See News, 13 Jun 2002).

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