Romeo and Juliet

[Karl-G]

The new production of "Romeo and Juliet" by Matthew Bourne will be shown this Sunday April 26 at 8:00 on the New Adventures youtube channel. Bourne apparently will be showing several of his productions in the next couple of weeks. "Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake" was shown last night (and I think is still up). If you have never seen it, you should. It is not a drag production nor a joke, but a complete revision of the old "Swan Lake" story with music by Tchaikowsky. It is a complex psychological look at the main characters. The swans are all handsome, hunky, shirtless males. The swan scene is extraordinary in its choreography. The famous pas de quatre is still here, but in an imaginative, powerful, masculine view you could never have imagined. It is an amazing production. Several interviews with Bourne are on youtube, as are interviews with various of the dancers who have played the prince and the swan.