Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell @ Sadler’s Wells

June 17, 2025

Intoxicated tales from darkest Soho

Following many previous visits to Sadler’s Wells for the wonderful Matthew Bourne productions of Cinderella, The Red Shoes, Nutcracker!, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Edward Scissorhands and Romeo & Juliet, the same New Adventures team returns this Summer with The Midnight Bell.

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.

Offer Price – £97.50

to include return coach, 2nd price seat, all booking & admin fees and driver’s gratuity.
Pick-up 4.30pm
Location: Dorking Halls