Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell to return for a UK tour in 2025

The award-winning production will be returning to the stage in 2025 with a new tour, opening at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on 15 May. The Midnight Bell will then embark on a 17-week countryside tour including many venues experiencing this production for the first time.

Inspired by the work of the great English novelist Patrick Hamilton (Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky), Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell is set in 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. Inside a tavern where a lonely-hearts club gather to play out their lovelorn affairs of the heart; bitter comedies of longing, frustration, betrayal and redemption.

Matthew Bourne once again joins forces with the Olivier and Tony award-winning team of Terry Davies (music), Lez Brotherston (set and costume design), Paule Constable (lighting design) and Paul Groothuis (sound design).

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.

The full UK tour schedule can be found by visiting this website.