Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty " review by Judith Mackrell

Sadlers Wells, LondonMatthew Bourne has already branded his imagination on two of the great Tchaikovsky ballets, reinventing a dark, Dickensian Nutcracker and a feral Swan Lake. But in tackling Sleeping Beauty, he has set himself a harder challenge. This is a story whose pallid principal characters and simple plotline would seem to resist any reinterpretation.In the original 1890 ballet, choreographer Marius Petipa c…

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