Sleeping Beauty
The ballet is based upon the book by Charles Perrault and set to the music by Tchaikovsky, who also wrote Swan Lake who’s the influences can be seen in the choreography. The world the Royal Ballet has created through the costumes and set has created a fairytale world. The colours especially create this sugary pastel coloured world which very much reminds me of the film Marie Antoinette. Although, the costumes merged on the overtop it worked with a production like this. The 3D decoration on the fairies costumes where beautiful although when they did their dance for what the gift was I did not understand all the mime and what they were meant to represent. This probably was not helped by the fact that I remember watching the Disney movie of sleeping beauty so I got confused because of the differences in the storyline.
I thought it was clever how the audience could see the passage of time between when Aurora is first born and turns 16 by the change of hairstyles and fashion sense. Maleficent the evil character in sleeping beauty is wonderfully acted and very scary. Something I was disappointed about was the fact that the prince does not defeat Maleficent and her minions the lilac fairy does making his character a bit whimpish.
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