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New AdventuresMatthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell

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Four seated performers are photographed from the shoulders down, dressed in smart attire, with each holding a drink in one hand.

Intoxicated tales from darkest Soho.


In 1930s London ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses nightly to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams in the pubs and fog-bound streets of Soho and Fitzrovia. Step inside The Midnight Bell, a tavern where one particular lonely-hearts club gather to play out their lovelorn affairs of the heart; bitter comedies of longing, frustration, betrayal and redemption.

Inspired by the work of the great English novelist Patrick Hamilton (Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky, Hangover Square) who created some of the most authentic fiction of his era; stories borne out of years of social interactions with the working man and woman at his favourite location – the London Pub.

Master storyteller Bourne once again joins forces with the Olivier and Tony award-winning team of Terry Davies, Lez Brotherston, Paule Constable and Paul Groothuis, and features fourteen of New Adventures’ finest performers in roles that will challenge and reveal the darker reaches of the human heart.

The Midnight Bell premiered to great acclaim in 2021 and received five nominations at the 2022 National Dance Awards, with Matthew Bourne winning the award for Best Modern Choreography and Michela Meazza for Outstanding Female Modern Performance.

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Audio Described Performances There are a limited number of Stalls seats reserved for partially sighted patrons, and headsets available for those wishing to listen to the audio description, please email tickets@sadlerswells.com if you wish to book these options
Touch Tour To accompany the Audio Described performance, visually impaired patrons can go on a Touch Tour before the performance. Your tour guide will take you backstage, or onto the stage itself, to feel costumes and pieces of the set and learn more about the production.

A triumph of Bourne’s genis for exact storytelling
★★★★ THE OBSERVER

Silky, sexy, intoxicating
★★★★★ THE I 

Dance theatre at it’s most compelling
★★★★★ THE ARTS DESK 

Heartfelt. Tells stories with absolute tenderness
★★★★ THE INDEPENDENT

Hauntingly beautiful, utter heaven, achingly moving
★★★★ SUNDAY EXPRESS

Gloriously atmospheric. Bourne’s dancers are superb
★★★★ EVERNING STANDARD

A poignant portrait of love, lust and longing. Raise a glass to this dazzling dance
★★★★ THE GUARDIAN 

 

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