Dance
The Car Man
A stranger arrives at a small town garage and sets off desire, jealousy and revenge.
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The story
Matthew Bourne's narrative dance thriller for New Adventures, moving the story of The Postman Always Rings Twice to a garage diner in the fictional American town of Harmony.
In the room
Story led dance set to Terry Davies's score built on Rodion Shchedrin's Carmen Suite after Bizet, combining Bourne's physical storytelling with a dark, film noir account of sex, violence and obsession.
Good fit if you like
narrative dance, film noir, dark adult thrillers and radical reworkings of familiar classical stories.
Details
- From 22 Sept 2026
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