Matthew Bourne’s award-winning The Midnight Bell heads to the Lowry as a part of its national tour this July.
The production will head on a 17-week countrywide tour and will stop at Salford Quays from Tuesday 1st until Saturday 5th July 2025.
Matthews Bourne’s The Midnight Bell is 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.
Salford audiences will be taken into 1930s London, where ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses nightly to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams.
Throughout the story, they will see the ordinary people perform in the pubs and fog-bound streets of Soho and Fitzrovia.
Visitors of the Lowry will be invited into 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.
The Midnight Bell premiered to great acclaim in 2021 and received five nominations at the 2022 National Dance Awards.
And Sir Matthew Bourne also won the award for Best Modern Choreography and Michela Meazza for Outstanding Female Modern Performance.
Matthew Bourne said on the cast: “This is, without doubt, the finest company of quintessential New Adventures actor/dancers ever assembled for a single production! Together they represent nearly 30 years of critically acclaimed performances and created roles in my work.
“In fact, it would be hard to imagine a cast more perfectly suited to the challenging world of Patrick Hamilton and his exploration of the darker reaches of the human heart.
He continued: “I’m thrilled to welcome back many of the superb original cast, Reece Causton, Glenn Graham, Daisy May Kemp, Andrew Monaghan, Liam Mower, Bryony Pennington and Michela Meazza, who won a National Dance Award for her role in this production.
“Making their debuts in The Midnight Bell are some of New Adventures most beloved stars of the last 25 years, Cordelia Braithwaite, Dominic North, Edwin Ray, Danny Reubens, Ashley Shaw and Alan Vincent.
Matthew added: “They are also joined by rising star Hannah Kremer, most recently seen as Juliet in my “Romeo and Juliet”.
“I urge you not to miss this never to be repeated opportunity to join us for an evening at The Midnight Bell and raise a glass to the very best that New Adventures has to offer.”
The show will visit the Lowry between Tuesday 1 July and Saturday 5 July, with a post-show talk featuring Sir Matthew Bourne on Friday 4 July.
More information and tickets can be found here.
Featured image by Johan Persson
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