Taking Tchaikovsky’s sweeping score as his script and his blueprint, Matthew Bourne has built an extraordinary retelling of this ancient tale that taps into the same vein, if you’ll pardon the pun, as the teenage vampire sensation The Twilight Saga. Putting the Gothic into this romance is a masterstroke – it immediately makes for some sumptuous costume opportunities, and laces a predictable love story with a darker and sexier understory.
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Burton and Chambers’ show is what you’d expect from the title, an idiosyncratic blending of cultures. But it’s also a joyful and watchful journey inside black Britain, presented with great wit and intellect by two extremely talented writers to watch out for.
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Written and directed by artistic director Natalie Ibu, I Know… represents the company’s most ambitious production and tour so far. Ibu describes the motivation behind the play: “A transformative moment – where the play really found itself – was when I found out, over Facebook, that I had five half brothers in Nigeria that I didn’t know about. I found myself grieving five men that hadn’t died but were absent . . .
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You can’t really argue with this. Thriller Live delivered what an eager crowd wanted – hit after hit from the great Jacko catalogue. It had to be tight, sassy, had to be ON it. Anything less… well, I dread to think. Backed live by the superb Thriller Band, Shaquille Hemmans, Michael Kavuma, Rory Taylor, Angelica Allen and Sean Christopher all took the night by storm to deliver a pulsing 30 plus songs to an adoring audience. Afterwards, streaming into the high-rise car park, some in the crowd were still singing and dancing . . .
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The last work of writer and journalist Joseph Roth before he died of alcoholism, The Legend is a painful yet magical autobiographical imagining from this eloquent liberal Jewish writer cast adrift in the late 1930s . . .
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