Cinderella wearing a prim grey cardigan and a Peter Pan-collared blouse, sits in the ruined shell of a building. Barrage balloons loom in a dark sky scoured by searchlights; sandbags slump against doorways.
Where’s her besom broom, her pumpkin coach, her benign Fairy Godmother? All have apparently vanished in a puff of incendiary bomb smoke.
This version of the fairytale ballet has been transformed by the imagination of choreographer Matthew Bourne, 50, who’s set his story in the London Blitz. His Cinderella is chauffeured to the ball by motorbike in a blackout, to the shriek of sirens and an escort of pirouetting air-raid wardens.
Bourne has brought his own brand of wit to the classical ballet Cinderella, set in wartime to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Blitz. The ballroom where Cinders meets her prince — in Bourne’s interpretation he’s Harry, an RAF pilot — is based on the sumptuous Soho nightclub Cafe de Paris, where swing bandleader Ken ‘Snakehips’ Johnson was among the 80 killed when two mines exploded on the dance floor in 1941.
This could realte to my play because it is a classic tale which is re told at a different time peroid. It is set in WW2 and even though it is set in London it does show what War does to people(mainly lovers). The sound effects and music used is also effective as it connects in with the time and to the characters feelings as this love affair is told. Themes such as; Love, Trust, War and Hope is used and characters that are used could be helpful towards my characterisation. This ballet also held content of World War 2 which also faded in with the music and the sound effects of the air raids and the bombs which could help me for my background sound when recording.
Trailer and Interview with Matthew Bourne: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12171803
Trailer and Interview with Matthew Bourne: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12171803
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