Matthew Bourne's The Midnight Bell

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Theatre Royal Brighton

Wed 30 Jul - Sat 2 Aug 2025

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Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures company return to Theatre Royal Brighton in 2025 with The Midnight Bell.

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Theatre Royal Brighton

Wed 30 Jul - Sat 2 Aug 2025

New Road, Brighton, BN1 1SD

Wed - Sat at 19:30

Thu and Sat at 14:30

Age guidance: 14+ The Midnight Bell contains scenes of a sexual nature, including sexual violence and mental distress, smoking on stage (e-cigarettes), haze and flickering lights (not strobe).

For group bookings of 10 or more:

Submit a request online

Or call 020 7206 1174

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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What the critics say

SILKY, SEXY. INTOXICATING

- The I

A poignant portrait of love, lust and longing. Raise a glass to this dazzling dance

- The Guardian

A TRIUMPH of Bourne’s genius for exact storytelling

- Observer

Theatre Royal Brighton

New Road, Brighton, BN1 1SD

Brighton Rail Station

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Theatre Royal Brighton has entertained audiences for over 217 years. This Grade II* listed building is one of the oldest theatres in the country and continues to delight audiences with pre and post West End shows.

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Theatre Royal Brighton

Wed 30 Jul - Sat 2 Aug 2025

New Road, Brighton, BN1 1SD

Wed - Sat at 19:30

Thu and Sat at 14:30

Age guidance: 14+ The Midnight Bell contains scenes of a sexual nature, including sexual violence and mental distress, smoking on stage (e-cigarettes), haze and flickering lights (not strobe).

For group bookings of 10 or more:

Submit a request online

Or call 020 7206 1174

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