From the outset of Matthew Bourne’s Play Without Words, the atmosphere drips off the stage.
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like some kind of performance petting event: the reality is more sensitive
and delicate than that.
If there’s one phrase that describes Matthew Bourne’s
imaginative retelling of the Nutcracker, it’s “oral feast”.
It’s one of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays, a timeless story of tragic love. Moscow City Ballet’s performance of Romeo and Juliet is robbed of the famous poetry, substituting for it Prokofiev’s score and Victor Smirnov-Golovanov’s skilful direction and choreography.
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