Matthew Bourne’s Designer On How They Work Together

Lez Brotherston: “Matt doesn’t come to me and say, ‘Oh, I want to have male swans’ … Matt looks at everything I draw, and one idea spins off to the next. Some of what we come up with is rubbish, and Matt changes his mind at every meeting, which can be frustrating and brilliant. But the whole thing becomes so enmeshed that we can’t remember whose idea is whose.”