Matthew Bourne - The Midnight Bell

Tuesday 2 September–Saturday 6 September Dance
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Tickets £26.50 to £49.50

Venue: Theatre Royal

Running time: Doors open 1 hour before each performance. Running times TBC

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Age Guidance: 14+
Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult aged 18+

This production contains scenes of a sexual nature, including sexual violence and mental distress, smoking on stage (e-cigarettes), haze and flickering lights (not strobe).

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Audio Described: 06/09/2025 14:30

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Premium Members Pre-sale: Wednesday 30 October at 10am
Standard Members Pre-sale: Thursday 31 October at 10am
General On-sale: Thursday 7 November at 10am

Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures company returns to Nottingham 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 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.

Members
All tickets £39.50 in the Stalls and Upper Circle for Tuesday to Thursday 7.30pm & Thursday 2pm performances only.

Under 26s
All tickets £34.50 in the Stalls and Upper Circle for Tuesday to Thursday 7.30pm & Thursday 2pm performances only. To purchase these tickets you must be 26 or under at the time of booking. You may be asked to show your ID on doors to confirm your age.

Groups 10+
All tickets £39.50 on bookings of 10 or more in the Stalls & Upper Circle for Tuesday to Thursday 7.30pm & Thursday 2pm performances only. Please email our Group Sales team or call 0115 989 5555 to book.

No concessions in the Dress Circle or Balcony or for Fri 7.30pm & Sat 2.30pm & 7.30pm performances

‘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

‘GLORIOUSLY ATMOSPHERIC. Bourne’s dancers are superb’

Evening Standard

‘HEARTFELT. Tells stories with absolute tenderness’

The Independent

‘HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL, utter heaven, achingly moving’

Sunday Express

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Tuesday 2 September

7:30 PM

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Wednesday 3 September

7:30 PM

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Thursday 4 September

2:00 PM

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Thursday 4 September

7:30 PM

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