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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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