The fag end of one of the modern era’s longest depressions is an odd time for a revival of F Scott Fitzgerald’s best known piece, but The Great Gatsby is everywhere right now.
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How do you deal with a story where the key action is the heroine sleeping for 100 years? If you’re Matthew Bourne, you shove the slumber in the interval and sex up the narrative with vampire fairies.
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From the outset of Matthew Bourne’s Play Without Words, the atmosphere drips off the stage.
Explore MoreThe Norfolk and Norwich Festival programme makes Motor Show sound
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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