| Music | Pyotr Tchaikovsky |
| Director and Choreographer | Matthew Bourne |
| Set and Costume Designer | Lez Brotherston |
| Sound Designer | Paul Groothuis |
| Lighting Designer | Paule Constable |
| Associate Directors | Etta Murfitt |
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New Adventures’ 25th birthday culminates with the world premiere of Matthew Bourne’s latest re-imagining of a ballet classic. Sleeping Beauty sees Bourne return to the music of Tchaikovsky to complete the trio of ballet masterworks that started with Nutcracker! and the international smash hit, Swan Lake.
His re-telling of Tchaikovksy’s Sleeping Beauty will begin in 1890, echoing the year of the Russian ballet’s original performance in St. Petersburg.
Its heroine Aurora then grows up into «the more rigid» Edwardian era.
She wakes up in the modern age, which Bourne calls “a world more mysterious and wonderful than any fairy story”.
