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Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty review

“Bourne can do better”
ReviewsDec 8, 2022by Siobhan MurphySadler’s Wells, London
Kayla Collymore, Shoko Ito, Christopher Thomas, Dominic North, Kurumi Kamayachi and Enrique Ngbokota in Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty. Photo: Johan Persson
Kayla Collymore, Shoko Ito, Christopher Thomas, Dominic North, Kurumi Kamayachi and Enrique Ngbokota in Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty. Photo: Johan Persson
Matthew Bourne’s interpretation of this Tchaikovsky ballet is visually gorgeous but overheated

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