Matthew Bourne Archives - Cultivated https://www.cultivated.org.uk/tag/matthew-bourne/ Arts and entertainment for East Anglia Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:42:36 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.cultivated.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-android-chrome-512x512-32x32.png Matthew Bourne Archives - Cultivated https://www.cultivated.org.uk/tag/matthew-bourne/ 32 32 Swan Lake https://www.cultivated.org.uk/reviews/2025/swan-lake-3/ https://www.cultivated.org.uk/reviews/2025/swan-lake-3/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:19:56 +0000 https://www.cultivated.org.uk/?p=3245 Forget tutus and ballerinas, the swans in this 30th anniversary revival of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake are the sort that could break your arm – or your heart.

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pumpkin in sight – the fairy godmother is a male angel, the carriage a
motorbike and sidecar, and the ball is at the Cafe de Paris in the midst of the
London Blitz.

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imaginative retelling of the Nutcracker, it’s “oral feast”.

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