Stage Scissorhands Is Slick And Sharp — londonist.com

Oh, what style! Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands appears at Sadler’s Wells this Christmas and New Year This Christmas and New Year, Sadler’s Wells has given its main theatre over to Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands, a dance piece inspired by the choreographer’s own love affair with the Tim Burton film. Edward Scissorhands is the story of a being created by a scientist who then dies prematurely, leaving his creation with long scissors in place of hands. The circumstances under which Edward comes about are slightly altered in Bourne’s version, but the subject matter is the same — a man simultaneously loved for his novelty value, feared for being different, and isolated from others by his inability to hold anyone close.

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