Matthew Bourne’s award-winning The Midnight Bell comes to Lowry for the first time this July, bringing a poignant and beguiling period piece about love, lust and longing among the working classes of London.
Inspired by the English literary titan Patrick Hamilton (Hangover Square, Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky), Bourne’s ‘silky, sexy, intoxicating’ (The i) dance production transports audiences to the smog-filled streets of 1930s Soho and Fitzrovia, where an assemblage of workers and vagabonds pour out of boarding houses and into the titular tavern. Inside, a lonely-hearts club gather to reminisce and recount their sorrows, lost loves and tales of betrayal in a spellbinding work of masterful choreography and dazzling original music.
Hailed by The Observer as ‘the undisputed king of dance theatre’, master storyteller Matthew Bourne has created some of the most successful dance productions of the last thirty years, including Swan Lake, Cinderella, The Red Shoes, Romeo and Juliet and Edward Scissorhands.
Book tickets to The Midnight Bell below.
Tue 1 Jul - Sat 5 Jul, 2pm, 7.30pm, The Lowry, Pier 8, Salford Quays, Salford, M50 3AZ, From £20
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- Words:
- Wolf McFarlane
- Published on:
- Thu 19 Jun 2025
