Matthew Bourne's Romeo and Juliet replaces the feuding families with a conflict between non-conforming young people shut up in an institution and the minders who bully, belittle, attack and sedate them. And occasionally treat them with compassion. The young people do what humans do: form alliances, fight back, hide, get violent, fall in love.

The falling-in-love dance was quite extraordinary: under dizzying lighting that drew the audience in too, they danced mouth to mouth and body to body across the stage and back, up the steps, along the balcony, down, onto the floor, up...

The erudite person sitting next to us wasn't terribly impressed by the reworking but I thought it was magnificent.

Meanwhile, the dance of politics gets worse and worse as those who hold the power do their devious, hypocritical damnedest to bully, belittle, attack and sedate us.