He put male swans into 'Swan Lake' and bikers into 'The Nutcracker'. Now Matthew Bourne has a new challenge – 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. Lynne Walker meets ballet's most daring choreographer Wednesday, 23 July 2008 "I'm actually quite scared of Dorian Gray," says Matthew Bourne, whose new dance-theatre version of Oscar Wilde's masterpiece is tipped as the hot ticket at this year's Edinburgh International Festival. Surely it's not the adaptation that worries him? Bourne's ability successfully to marry dance and story-telling has worked to quirky perfection in such classics as his male Swan Lake, sweet-toothed Nutcracker! and his magical, sharp-edged Edward Scissorhands. What is so different about adapting Wilde's illusive chimera concerning the Adonis-like young man whose portrait ages while he doesn't, allowing Dorian to...
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