Passions play out in smoky pubs of Soho
The Midnight Bell is bound for Bath as the world premiere of Matthew Bourne’s latest work for his ground-breaking dance-theatre company New Adventures tours to the Theatre Royal
The production visits the Theatre Royal Bath from Tuesday, November 23 to Saturday, November 27 as part of a nationwide tour.
Bourne’s latest work is inspired by 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.
This new production explores the under-belly of 1930s London life where ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses nightly to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams in the pubs and bars of fog-bound Soho and Fitzrovia.
World famous choreographer Bourne takes audiences inside The Midnight Bell, a tavern where one particular lonely-hearts club gathers to play out their lovelorn affairs of the heart; bitter comedies of longing, frustration, betrayal and redemption.
The performance features 12 of New Adventures’ finest performers including Paris Fitzpatrick, Glenn Graham, Bryony Harrison, Daisy May Kemp, Kate Lyons, Michela Meazza, Andrew Monaghan, Liam Mower, Danny Reubens, Christopher Thomas, Richard Winsor and Bryony Wood.
Tickets - with limited availability - are on sale at the Theatre Royal Bath Box Office on 01225 448844 and online at www.theatreroyal.org.uk.
Standby tickets for evening performances will go on sale daily during the week of the Bath run.