Few choreographers are quite as celebrated as Matthew Bourne. He has won Tony Awards, an Olivier and was knighted earlier this year.

Now his gothic interpretation of Sleeping Beauty is on its way to Wimbledon.

One of his dancers, Adam Maskell said: “I have been very lucky. Maybe I am a bit biased but I think he is the best.

“One of the luckiest things about our company is that we have built up a rapport with the viewing public who love to watch his work.

“One of the best things about performing for him is you know you are going to get sold out houses every single night of the week. It’s a huge thing for a performer.”

Adam, who grew up in Chessington and now lives in Earlsfield, has danced in Bourne’s company since 2009 and is relishing the chance to perform nearby.

The 28-year-old said: “I can’t wait to be home. I got an e-mail from my mum yesterday saying ‘make sure you request to be on on the Tuesday and Wednesday’ because she is bringing loads of her friends.

“All of my mates want to come. It’s brilliant.”

Fellow dancer Ashley Shaw grew up in Australia and now also lives in Earlsfield.

She said: “We can’t wait to bring it to Wimbledon. It is great to bring it home. It’s lovely to be in London and have all of our friends coming.”

Bourne’s twist on Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet Sleeping Beauty gives it a gothic feel and also brings in vampires.

If that sounds like a gamble, then it is one that paid off handsomely when the show was first performed in 2012.

Critics went crazy for it. The Mail on Sunday described the show as ‘strikingly fresh. Witty, inventive and touching’.

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Maskell, who was also part of the 2012 run, said: “He put a bit of a twist onto the story, in a way to make it make more sense and to modernise it.

“Obviously you have the vampire twist, which when we created the show in 2012 was very apt for the time, with Twilight and all of the vampires. It was very of the moment.

“Then he also created a true love story, which is one of his strengths.

“In the original, she gets put to sleep then a prince who she has never met comes and gives her a true love kiss.

“What he has done is created a relationship between Sleeping Beauty and the love before she gets pricked by the rose.

“She has got 100 years to wait while she is asleep before she gets awoken by her true love and she knows who her true love is.

“That is where the vampire element works well because how does the prince wait for 100 years? Because he is a vampire.

“Whenever he puts his spin on something, he always makes it make logistical sense as well.”

Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty is at New Wimbledon Theatre from March 22 to 26. Tickets cost from £19.40. Go to atgtickets.com/wimbledon