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The Car Man

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Theatre Royal, Nottingham · Nottingham

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.

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From 22 Sept 2026

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