Sleeping Beauty
From: Wednesday, 28th November 2012
To: Saturday, 1 December 2012
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Synopsis
Sleeping Beauty is the much-loved tale of a cursed princess doomed to sleep for one hundred years. However, the enchantment is finally broken with an handsome prince awakens when with a kiss.
Our Review:
29 November 2012
The North West is spoilt for choice with two recent contrasting productions of Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty. Matthew Bourne’s vampiric /gothic revision is followed by a more classic/ traditional version from The English National Ballet (ENB).
Dark fairy Carabosse (James Streeter) takes umbrage at being excluded from celebrations and curses Princess Aurora (artistic director Tamara Rojo) to die. An intervention from the Lilac Fairy (Daria Klimentova) mitigates the curse to eternal sleep unless the princess is wakened by true love’s kiss.
The production from the ENB revels in taking a classic approach going so far as to draw in elements from other traditions. Characters from other fairy tales – Puss in Boots and Red Riding Hood – make cameo appearances. The female villain is played, in the panto tradition, by a man.
The latter is an inspired development. James Streeter’s interpretation and masculine sta...
Creative
Tchaikovsky (Music)
English National Ballet (Company)
Kenneth MacMillan (after Marius Petipa) (Choreographer)
Peter Farmer (Design)
Nicholas Georgiadis (Costume)
David Richardson (Lighting)
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