Sadlers Wells, LondonEven when it was premiered 13 years ago, Matthew Bourne's Cinderella stood out from every other setting of Prokofiev's fairytale score. In brutal contrast to the tinsel and tutus of traditional productions, Bourne transposed the action to the carnage of the London Blitz. His logic was simple: Prokofiev had composed the work in the middle of the second world war, and Bourne heard an incendiary dar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:26PM on December 10, 2010