This production is recommended for ages 12+.
Performance dates
28 July - 29 August 2026
Run time: 1hrs 55mins
Includes interval
34 reviews
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Matthew Bourne’s award-winning The Car Man is back! Loosely based on Bizet’s ever-popular opera, The Car Man has one of the most thrilling and instantly recognisable scores in New Adventures’ repertoire.
The familiar 19th Century Spanish cigarette factory becomes a greasy 1950s garage-diner in the American Mid-West where the dreams and passions of a small-town are shattered by the arrival of a handsome and enigmatic stranger. Fuelled by heat and desire, the inhabitants are driven into an unstoppable spiral of greed, lust, betrayal and revenge.
Matthew Bourne’s vivid storytelling combines with one of the most passionately dramatic scores ever written, with music by Terry Davies featuring Rodion Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite (after Bizet’s Carmen), to create a dance thriller like no other.
The Car Man will ignite your senses and leave you breathless.
New Adventures is delighted to announce that international ballet superstar, Marcelo Gomes will guest star as ‘Luca’, the title role in the internationally acclaimed and multi-award winning dance thriller THE CAR MAN during the four week summer season at Sadler’s Wells from 14 July to 9 August 2015
14 Apr, 2015 | By Tom Stratford
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