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Matthew Bourne's Cinderella review " blitz fairytale spins light through darkness

by Judith Mackrell

Sadler's Wells, LondonUsing the second world war as a traumatic, ships-in-the-night backdrop is inspired and Bourne's dancers are once again on top of their game During the four years in which Sergei Prokofiev was writing the music for Cinderella, the world was engaged in a war of industrial-scale brutality. As half of Europe fell to Nazi occupation, Britain suffered bombing raids and Russia battled against invading …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:18am on December 26, 2017