The Midnight Bell is opening its doors again in 2025

Matthew Bourne’s award-winning The Midnight Bell will be returning in 2025, opening at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on Thursday 15 May. It will then embark on a 17-week countrywide tour including many venues for the first time with this production.

Inspired by the work of the great English novelist Patrick Hamilton, The Midnight Bell takes us back to 1930s London, where 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 gathers 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, with Matthew Bourne winning the award for Best Modern Choreography and Michela Meazza for Outstanding Female Modern Performance. 

Matthew Bourne once again joins forces with the Olivier and Tony award-winning team of Terry Davies, Lez Brotherston, Paule Constable and Paul Groothuis

The cast for The Midnight Bell will feature fourteen of New Adventures’ finest actor/dancers in roles that challenge and reveal the darker reaches of the human heart. Full casting will be announced shortly.