Check out the latest photos and videos of Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell, on a new UK tour including the Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London.
The new tour is playing at Sadler’s Wells in London from 10 to 21 June 2025, and also touring. See all dates and booking info here.
The cast of fourteen includes Cordelia Braithwaite, Reece Causton, Glenn Graham, Daisy May Kemp, Hannah Kremer, Michela Meazza, Andy Monaghan, Liam Mower, Dominic North, Bryony Pennington, Edwin Ray, Danny Reubens, Ashley Shaw and Alan Vincent.
New in: First-look production photos have been released for The Midnight Bell.
Photos: Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell – in production
Set 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.
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.
Video: Watch the trailer for The Midnight Bell
The Midnight Bell first premiered in 2021, with Matthew Bourne winning the National Dance Award for Best Modern Choreography, and Michela Meazza for Outstanding Female Modern Performance.
Video: Interview with designer Lez Brotherson about the making of The Midnight Bell
The creative team also features Terry Davies (music), Lez Brotherston (set and costume design), Paule Constable (lighting design) and Paul Groothuis (sound design).
Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell is running at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London from 10 to 21 June 2025.
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