Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words " review
Sadler's Wells, LondonWhen Play Without Words was premiered back in 2002, it raised British dance theatre to a new pitch of sophistication. A study of sex and class in early 1960s London, it filleted elements of style and psychology from a kaleidoscope of period sources (including Joseph Losey's The Servant) and turned them into an hour and 45 minutes of tautly visualised storytelling. Ten years on, the structure hol…