4 December-26 January 2013, New Adventures, Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty, Sadler's Wells New Adventures’ 25th year of celebratio n culminates with the London premiere of Matthew Bourne’s new re-imagining of a ballet classic, the third in a Tchaikovsky trilogy that has already s hown Nutcracker! and Swan Lake. Bourne’s production introduces Aurora at he r Christening in 1890, the year the great ballet was created, a time whenfairies and vampires fed the gothic imagination, and them moves the story through the ages to the modern day. Featuring designs by Olivier Award-wi nners Lez Brotherston (set and costumes), Paule Constable (lighting) and s ound design by Paul Groothuis in specially recorded surround sound. Book ing: http://www.sadlerswells.com