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Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty review " the return of an exhilarating gothic classic by Judith Mackrell

Sadler's Wells, LondonBourne's imagination thrives where others fail and his reinventions " a puppet Aurora, battling suitors and homages to Petipa " transform fairytale into dramaBaby Aurora may be key to the story of Sleeping Beauty, but in most ballet productions she's present only as an unconvincing afterthought " a bland prop of a doll who's either ignored by the court around her or dandled carelessly in the arm…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM on January 1, 2017

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