Matthew Bourne talks about his Dorian Gray at the Edinburgh festival

Matthew Bourne, the most talented choreographer of his generation, famous for his all-male Swan Lake, talks about his new ballet, a contemporary retelling of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray - the hottest ticket at the Edinburgh International Festival. Why did you choose Dorian Gray? It's been on the list of things I've wanted to do for a long time, but I've constantly been put off it because the characters are so nasty. Then I realised that we love a lot of stories where the heroes are villains; we still like them and want them to succeed. Do you want us to dislike Dorian Gray or feel sorry for him? If you met him, you would be charmed by him, even with the knowledge that he ends up killing people. That's how he gets what he wants. He's a bit like the characters in American Psycho or Dexter; they're killers,... [read full story]