“…Visually the show is superb. The one-set-fits-all is basically a vast film studio but also becomes a theatre, an office and a street onto which thousands of gallons of water are poured every night. The lighting and the costumes combine to re-create the bright but soft and subtle colours of old Technicolor movies…The big production numbers like the Busby Berkeley-esque Beautiful Girls complete with shiny aeroplane followed by the famous and very wet title song, were spectacular, as was the apache ballet in the second half….”

“… So, what makes this SWAN LAKE different? Daft question – everything about Matthew Bourne’s SWAN LAKE is different. This is SWAN LAKE turned on its head and given a jolly good shake. For a start, all the swans are men and the first couple of acts are played, very successfully, for laughs…”