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 >>Featuring a tour de force performance from Simon Callow, Being Shakespeare offers a compelling look at the life and work of the world’s greatest playwright. Written by the renowned scholar Jonathan Bate, Being Shakespeare is both a wonderful introduction to the author and a richly nuanced, funny and fascinating study for those who already love his plays.
View Details >>Shakespeare’s Globe is a film offering an intimate look at the working life of a unique theatrical institution. The film explores a day in the life of this remarkable enterprise: behind-the-scenes preparations, rehearsals, backstage drama and performance extracts from a production of Romeo and Juliet, together with glimpses into Globe Education workshops and activities, the exhibition and tours!
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 >>Muse of Fire is a heartfelt and inspiring film that aims to demystify and illuminate Shakespeare‘s work for just about anyone: from actors, directors, theatre-goers, and students, to the person on the street. Think Shakespeare is boring? Think again! Muse of Fire will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever.
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.
View Details >>For fifty years, Harold Pinter has been at the centre of theatrical work and his contribution to theatre, film and, more recently the political stage, has been enormous. Working with Pinter offers unprecedented access to the his creative processes in the rehearsal room.
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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”.
