Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty – review

Sadlers Wells, LondonMatthew Bourne has already branded his imagination on two of the great Tchaikovsky ballets, reinventing a dark, Dickensian Nutcracker and a feral Swan Lake. But in tackling Sleeping Beauty, he has set himself a harder challenge. This is a story whose pallid principal characters and simple plotline would seem to resist any reinterpretation.In the original 1890 ballet, choreographer Marius Petipa compensated for the lack of drama through the scale and detail of his dance inven...

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