Sadler's Wells, LondonThe challenge facing any choreographer of the Cinderella story is Prokofiev's score. Written during the second world war, it has a sombre undertow which lends its romanticism an edge of sadness. Matthew Bourne fell in love with the music watching Frederick Ashton's version of the ballet, which combines radiant fairytale choreography with very British elements of pantomime, and when he came to cr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PM on December 11, 2010