Broadcast on the BBC and Sky Arts, seven of Matthew Bourne’s beautiful and exquisite productions, including Swan Lake and Romeo + Juliet, are now available for download and streaming, many with exclusive additional content.
With family-sized helpings of Matthew Bourne’s wit, pathos and magical fantasy, Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! follows Clara’s bittersweet journey from Christmas Eve at Dr. Dross’s Orphanage, through a shimmering, ice-skating winter wonderland, to the scrumptious candy kingdom of Sweetieland.
View Details >>Based on Michael Powell’s film of the same name, Matthew Bourne‘s The Red Shoes tells the tale of obsession, possession and one girl’s dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. With performances by Ashley Shaw, Dominic North and Adam Cooper, The Red Shoes will dazzle your senses and break your heart.
View Details >>Matthew Bourne’s contemporary reimagining of Shakespeare’s classic love story, Romeo + Juliet, is given a modern twist as society tries to break the young lovers apart.
View Details >>Matthew Bourne’s seminal reimagined Swan Lake replaces the female corps-de-ballet with a menacing male ensemble and here, in his latest production, Bourne updates his Swan Lake for the 21st Century.
View Details >>New Adventures’ innovative dance performance of Sleeping Beauty recorded live on stage. Set in a wondrous world of fairies and vampires, where the timeless tale of good vs evil is turned upside-down, Bourne creates a supernatural love story that even the passage of time itself cannot hinder. Will Princess Aurora ever find her true love again?
View Details >>Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella is a thrilling and evocative love story set in London during the Second World War. In a clever reimagining of a classic fairy tale, Cinderella meets a dashing young RAF pilot and they are together just long enough to fall in love before parted by the horrors of the Blitz.
View Details >>Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man is one of modern dance’s most thrilling and entertaining shows and has been a smash-hit in the UK and around the world. Loosely based on Bizet’s Carmen, the familiar Spanish cigarette factory of the opera is replaced with a greasy garage-diner in 1960s mid-west USA, it is a delightful, dangerous and uncompromising vision of small-town America.
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Matthew Bourne brings his unique take on the legendary 1948 feature film.
Shakespeare’s classic love story is given a novel twist by being set in the dystopian “Verona Institution”.
