Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty is a playful, sexy delight Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
? Charles Perrault’s 1697 fairy tale told of a princess cursed to fall into a coma decades before the prince might be born to free her. But even by 1959, when Disney produced, creatives understood that the modern woman expected to have chosen a partner while she was still awake.
Disney had dashing Prince Phillip short-circuit the 100-year wait and break the curse within hours – with help from fairies styled like maiden aunts.finds a different solution, recruiting some decidedly sexier supernatural beings. In traditional stagings of Tchaikovsky’s ballet, Aurora dances the famous “Rose Adagio” music with stodgy no-mark suitors. In Bourne’s version, she’s already run off to find Leo, a strapping young rose gardener. But how is Leo to maintain his vitality when Aurora falls asleep for 100 years? Fortunately, a vampire fairy godfather is on hand in the shape of Count Lilac. He bites, Leo thrives on, undead. All he needs to do is fight off a darker vampire, the predatory Caradoc.
What makes it a delight is the spirit of joyous sexual discovery that runs through Bourne’s expansive choreography. When we meet Aurora, she’s spreading her legs alone on her bed, rhythmically pulling off her own stockings. It’s hard to imagine a more suggestive and playful depiction of adolescent self-exploration. At the performance I see, Ashley Shaw is an exquisite Aurora.
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