Matthew Bourne

• Dance / Reviews

  Review: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty, Bristol Hippodrome – ‘Aimed at fans of the gritty and spectacular’

  It might not be for purists, but this reimagining of the classic is a crowd-pleasing Gothic romance

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• Dance / Bristol Hippodrome

  Review: The Nutcracker, Bristol Hippodrome – ‘a riotously kitsch fantasy show’

  Matthew Bourne’s celebrated interpretation of the classic returns to Bristol after nine years

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• Dance / Ballet

  Review: Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes, Hippodrome

  Bourne's The Red Shoes is ballet with the buttons undone

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• Dance / Matthew Bourne

  Love Versus Art – The Red Shoes

  Matthew Bourne's new masterpiece of storytelling and dance technique comes to Bristol

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• Theatre / dance

  Review: Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella, Hippodrome

  Atmospheric, evocative, stuffed with classic film references - yet wholly its own achievement

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• Theatre / Keppel and Betty

  Review: Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes, Hippodrome

  "Proper grown-up entertainment that excites on a number of levels"

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