This is not a sparkling fairy tale for children but a passionate cinematic tale of brief encounters and dancing like there is no tomorrow because at any time a bomb may mean there is no tomorrow.

Matthew Bourne's Cinderella is both a tribute to the London of the 1940s with locations such as Oxford Circus Underground, Paddington Station, the Thames Embankment and Soho's ill-fated Cafe de Paris recreated in Lez Brotherston's impressive art deco sets, and to the movies of that era.

Brief Encounter

The prominent tone is a silver screen monochrome, Michela Meazza's elegantly evil stepmother is Joan Crawford like and such classics as A Matter Of Life And Death and Brief Encounter are influences.

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