MATTHEW BOURNE'S SWAN LAKE announces full UK and Ireland tour dates
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New Adventures have announced full UK and Ireland tour dates for Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, as it returns for its 30th anniversary with a 2024-25 tour, visiting an incredible 19 venues across 29 weeks, the most touring weeks of any dance company in the UK.
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake begins at Theatre Royal Plymouth from 11-16 November before visiting The Lowry, Salford from 19-30 November, ahead of the 8-week annual Christmas season at Sadler’s Wells from 3 December 2024 - 26 January 2025, marking New Adventures’ 22nd consecutive Christmas season at the venue.
In 2025, the production will tour to Sheffield (13-17 May 2025), Dublin (20-24 May 2025) and Aberdeen (28-31 May 2025), as well the previously announced Birmingham, Nottingham, Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton, Norwich, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Milton Keynes, Cardiff, Canterbury, Bradford and Glasgow. Full tour listings below.
This groundbreaking production of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece caused a sensation when it premiered almost 30 years ago and has since become the most successful dance theatre production of all time. In celebration of that ongoing impact, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake will take flight once more in this major revival, as the next generation of dancers brings it to new audiences across the UK.
Making their debuts as The Swan/The Stranger are rising New Adventures stars: Harrison Dowzell, Jackson Fisch and Rory Macleod, alongside James Lovell, Leonardo McCorkindale and Stephen Murray as The Prince, Nicole Kabera and Ashley Shaw as The Queen, Katrina Lyndon as The Queen and the Girlfriend, and Bryony Wood as the Girlfriend.
The company is completed by Matthew Amos, Benjamin Barlow Bazeley, Alistair Beattie, Ben Brown, Carla Contini, Jade Copas, Anna-Maria de Freitas, Perreira de Jesus Franque, Jamie Duncan-Campbell, Alexander Fadayiro, Savannah Ffrench, Cameron Flynn, Louis Fukuhara, Louis Harris, Kurumi Kamayachi, Sebastien Kapps, Aristide Lyons, Callum Mann, Eleanor McGrath, Jarrod McWilliams, Maisie Mwebe, Mukeni Nel, Eve Ngbokota, George-Murray Nightingale, Harry Ondrak-Wright, Barnaby Quarendon, Molly Shaw-Downie, Nikolas Shikkis, Xavier Andriambolanoro Sotiya, Tom Standing and Christina Walters.
Thrilling, bold, witty and emotive, this genre-defining event is still best known for replacing the female corps-de-ballet with a menacing male ensemble, which shattered convention, turning tradition on its head.
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake is directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne, with set and costume design by Lez Brotherston, lighting by Paule Constable, video and projection design by Duncan McLean, and sound by Ken Hampton.
To book tickets for Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake at select touring venues, please click here.