Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words; Dance GB: The Olympic Project – review

Sadler's Wells; Old Royal Naval College, LondonPlay Without Words was created by Matthew Bourne for the National Theatre's 2002 Transformation season, which set out to explore ways of attracting a younger crowd to the building. Bourne's production, an erotically charged dance work inspired by the new wave British cinema of the 1960s, pressed all the right buttons. Darker and harder-edged than the choreographer's story-ballets, and impelled by a superbly atmospheric jazz score by Terry Davies, th...

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