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Caroline Thompson, original screenwriter of Edward Scissorhands is discussing Matthew Bourne’s adaptation at Newcastle Theatre Royal playing from 27 March until 6 April

Devised, directed and choreographed by Sir Matthew Bourne OBE and based on the original motion picture directed by Tim Burton with a screenplay by Caroline Thompson; the highly anticipated dance production Edward Scissorhands, promises a witty, emotional and bittersweet story of an incomplete boy left alone in a strange new world.

Edward Scissorhands was born in June 1986 in the Bombay Bicycle Club restaurant in West Los Angeles, California, when Tim Burton, then a little-known director and producer was having a drink at the bar with Caroline Thompson, an American novelist and screenwriter.

“We had been introduced a couple of months earlier by our agents,” Caroline shares,

“They had put us together because they didn’t know quite what to d