Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterTony and Oliver Award winner director/choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic story of love and conflict. Set in the not-too-distant future in ‘The Verona Institute’ and mysteriously confined against their will by a society that seeks to divide and crush their youthful spirits, our … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe multi-award winning openly gay British choreographer and director Sir Matthew Bourne first staged his male version of SWAN LAKE at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London in 1995. Overnight it converted thousands of unsuspecting men and women everywhere into balletomanes. It became the longest running ballet in London’s West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIts kind of mind-blogging to realize that the traditional Christmas ballet NUTCRACKER has been performed since 1892. It seems that the changes it has undertaken over the past two centuries could hardly be considered significant that was until (Sir) Matthew Bourne got his hands on it. His Nutcracker follows Clara’s bittersweet journey from Christmas … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIf you have never seen any of Sir Matthew Bourne’s stunning ballets then you are so missing out, This award-winning queer Brit choreographer has produced breath-taking genre-bridging adaptations of classics like “Swan Lake,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Car Man” and “The Red Shoes”. Now his latest one Romeo and Juliet, which was filmed live at Sadler’s Wells … Continue reading