Full Cast Announced for Matthew Bourne's SLEEPING BEAUTY - Ashley Shaw, Dominic North, Chris Trenfield and More!

New Adventures are delighted to announce the principal casting for the first revival of Matthew Bourne's "SLEEPING BEAUTY" at Sadler's Wells. The eight week Christmas season is from Tuesday 1 December 2015 to Saturday 24 January 2016. (Press night on Wednesday 9 December 2015). Please see the schedule below.

Matthew Bourne's SLEEPING BEAUTY is a gothic tale for all ages; the traditional tale of good vs. evil and rebirth is turned upside-down, creating a supernatural love story that even the passage of time itself cannot hinder.

Bourne's new scenario introduced several characters not seen in Petipa's famous Ballet or Grimm's fairy tale. This imaginary kingdom is ruled over by King Benedict and Queen Eleanor. Princess Aurora's romantic interest is not a Prince, but the royal gamekeeper, Leo. Representing the central forces of good and evil are Count Lilac ("the King of the Fairies") and the Dark Fairy Carabosse. Bourne has also created the character of Caradoc, the sinister but charming son of Carabosse. Princess Aurora's Fairy Godparents are characterised by their names - Ardor, Hibernia, Autumnus, Feraland Tantrum.

Returning to the central role of Aurora in this first revival is rising star Ashley Shaw. Ashley recently played Lana in the triumphant revival of The Car Man, and has also played Kim in Edward Scissorhands, Sugar in Nutcracker! and the title role in Cinderella. Cordelia Braithwaite made her debut with New Adventures in Swan Lake in 2013 and has since featured in this year's revival of The Car Man, covering the role of Lana. Cordelia makes her debut as Aurora this season; her first Principal role with New Adventures.

The leading role of Leo will once again be played by Dominic North and Chris Trenfield who co-created the role in 2012. Dominic holds the distinction of appearing in more New Adventures productions than any other dancer and was most recently seen as Angelo in The Car Man (Seen also in the filmed version for SkyArts). He was nominated as "Outstanding Male Dancer" at The National Dance Awards for his performance as Edward Scissorhands which he re-created to much acclaim earlier this year. Chris has this year been seen as Luca in The Car Man and played the role in the SkyArts TV broadcast in August. One of New Adventures' most versatile leading men, he has also been seen as Tony in Play Without Words, the title role in Nutcracker! and The Swan/Stranger in Bourne's Swan Lake which he also danced at the Music Centre of Los Angeles 50th Anniversary Gala last year.

Count Lilac will be portrayed once again by one of New Adventures' most accomplished performers Christopher Marney, and in his third Principal role for New Adventures this year, Liam Mower. Christopher has appeared in the highly successful Triple Bill, Early Adventures, as Cyril Vane in DorIan Gray (Created role), The Prince in Swan Lake and The Angel in Bourne's Cinderella in 2010. Most recently he has had a big personal success as the choreographer of the West End hit play, McQueen. Liam Mower is the Olivier award-winning original star of the West End hit Billy Elliot. Joining New Adventures in 2011 to appear in Nutcracker!, he has also appeared in Play Without Words, as The Prince in Swan Lake (a role that he danced with the Royal Ballet's Edward Watson at last year's Ignite Festival) and his critically acclaimed portrayal of Edward Scissorhands earlier this year.

The twin roles of Carabosse and Caradoc will be shared by two charismatic New Adventures performers; Adam Maskellwho co-created the role in 2012 returns to the Company having previously featured in DorIan Gray, Nutcracker! (title role),Play Without Words and as The Angel in Cinderella. Tom Clark makes his debut in a Principal role with New Adventures following roles in Swan Lake, The Car Man and as Jim Upton in Edward Scissorhands.

King Benedict will be played by Will Bozier (Edward Scissorhands) Glenn Graham (Swan Lake, The Angel in Cinderellaand The Car Man) and Chris Trenfield. Queen Eleanor by Pia Driver (Swan Lake, The Car Man, Edward Scissorhands),Nicole Kabera (Edward Scissorhands, Nutcracker!, The Car Man, Swan Lake) and Katie Webb (Swan Lake, The Car Man).

Completing the SLEEPING BEAUTY Company are: Daniel Collins, Jack Jones, Mari Kamata, Phil King, Dominic Lamb, Dena Lague, Katy Lowenhoff, Katrina Lyndon, Kate Lyons, Andrew Monaghan, Leon Moran and Danny Reubens

"SLEEPING BEAUTY" is directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne working again with three of his regular collaborators and New Adventures Associate Artists; Lez Brotherston (Set and Costumes), Paule Constable (Lighting) and Paul Groothuis (Sound Design). The 2015 Revival will be Directed by Matthew Bourne, Staged by Associate Director Etta Murfitt and the Resident Director is Neil Westmoreland.

Matthew Bourne's "SLEEPING BEAUTY" premiered in 2012, and was the fastest selling production in the company's history. "SLEEPING BEAUTY" was created for New Adventures' 25th birthday celebrations and completed Matthew Bourne's trio of re-imagined Tchaikovsky ballet masterworks that started in 1992 with Nutcracker! and, most famously, in 1995, with the international hit Swan Lake. This dazzling production has won the hearts of thousands and smashed box office records across the UK and at Sadler's Wells. Its USA premiere in 2013 prompted Joan Acolella of The New Yorker to hail Bourne as "the most popular choreographer of theatrical dance in the Western world" and The New York Times said: "This is Bourne at his best - a masterful storyteller." The production also won three Los Angeles Drama Critic Awards and the Ovation Award for "Best Production".

Perrault's timeless fairy tale, about a young girl cursed to sleep for one hundred years, was turned into a legendary ballet by Tchaikovsky and choreographer, Marius Petipa, in 1890. Bourne takes this date as his starting point, setting the Christening of Aurora, the story's heroine, in the year of the ballet's first performance; the height of the Fin-de-Siecle period when fairies, vampires and decadent opulence fed the gothic imagination. As Aurora grows into a young woman, we move forwards in time to the more rigid, uptight Edwardian era; a mythicAl Golden age of long Summer afternoons, croquet on the lawn and new dance crazes. Years later, awakening from her century long slumber, Aurora finds herself in the modern day; a world more mysterious than any Fairy story!

LONDON 2015/2016 CASTING FOR THE ROLES OF AURORA, LEO, CARABOSSE/CARADOC AND COUNT LILAC

2015

Tuesday 1 December at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Wednesday 2 December at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Thursday 3 December at 7.30pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Friday 4 December at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Saturday 5 December at 2.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Saturday 5 December at 7.30pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Sunday 6 December at 2.00pm - Casting to be announced

Sunday 6 December at 7.00pm - Casting to be announced

Tuesday 8 December at 7.30pm - Casting to be announced

Wednesday 9 December at 7.30pm - Casting to be announced

Thursday 10 December at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Friday 11 December at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Saturday 12 December at 2.30pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Saturday 12 December at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Sunday 13 December at 2.00pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Sunday 13 December at 7.00pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Tuesday 15 December at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Wednesday 16 December at 7.30pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Thursday 17 December at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Friday 18 December at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Saturday 19 December at 2.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Saturday 19 December at 7.30pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Sunday 20 December at 2.00pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Sunday 20 December at 7.00pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Tuesday 22 December at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Wednesday 23 December at 2.30pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Wednesday 23 December at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Thursday 24 December at 2.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Friday 25 December - NO PERFORMANCE

Saturday 26 December at 4.00pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Sunday 27 December at 2.00pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Sunday 27 December at 7.00pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Tuesday 29 December at 2.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Tuesday 29 December at 7.30pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Wednesday 30 December at 2.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Wednesday 30 December at 7.30pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Thursday 31 December at 2.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

2016

Friday 1 January - NO PERFORMANCE

Saturday 2 January at 2.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Saturday 2 January at 7.30pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Sunday 3 January at 2.00pm - Kate Lyons as Aurora, Andrew Monaghan as Leo, Liam Mower as Carabosse/Caradoc and Jack Jones as Count Lilac

Sunday 3 January at 7.00pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Tuesday 5 January at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Wednesday 6 January at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Thursday 7 January at 7.30pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Friday 8 January 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Saturday 9 January at 2.30pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Saturday 9 January at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Sunday 10 January at 2.00pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Sunday 10 January at 7.00pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Tuesday 12 January at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Wednesday 13 January at 7.30pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Thursday 14 January at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Friday 15 January at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Saturday 16 January at 2.30pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Saturday 16 January at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Sunday 17 January at 2.00pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Sunday 17 January at 7.00pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Tuesday 19 January at 7.30pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Wednesday 20 January at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Thursday 21 January at 2.30pm - Kate Lyons as Aurora, Andrew Monaghan as Leo, Liam Mower as Carabosse/Caradoc and Jack Jones as Count Lilac

Thursday 21 January at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Friday 22 January at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Saturday 23 January at 2.30pm - Cordelia Braithwaite as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Liam Mower as Count Lilac

Saturday 23 January at 7.30pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Chris Trenfield as Leo, Tom Clark as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Sunday 24 January at 2.00pm - Ashley Shaw as Aurora, Dominic North as Leo, Adam Maskell as Carabosse/Caradoc and Chris Marney as Count Lilac

Changes to published casting may be necessary at short notice due to illness or injury. No exchanges or refunds will be offered to any ticket holders on either previously purchased tickets or in case of last minute cast changes.

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