Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell releases new tour photos

Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell has released new photos for its 2025 tour.

Inspired by novelist Patrick Hamilton (Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky, Hangover Square), the piece is set in 1930s London, where ordinary people flock to the pubs of Soho to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams. The award-winning piece from New Adventures premiered in 2021.

The cast features 14 of New Adventures’ actors/dancers. They are Cordelia Braithwaite, Reece Causton, Glenn Graham, Daisy May Kemp, Hannah Kremer, Michela Meazza, Andy Monaghan, Liam Mower, Dominic North, Bryony Pennington, Edwin Ray, Danny Reubens, Ashley Shaw and Alan Vincent.

Many of the performers appeared in the original cast, including Michela Meazza, who won a National Dance Award for her role in the production.

The Midnight Bell has music by Terry Davies, set and costume design by Lez Brotherston, lighting design by Paule Constable and sound design by Paul Groothuis.

The new tour opened at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on 15 May and will now visit Bath, Truro, York, London, Leicester, Salford, Newcastle, Northampton, Plymouth, Brighton, Nottingham, Norwich, Liverpool, Sheffield and Bradford.

You can also see Bourne’s choreography in the West End revival of Oliver!, and New Adventures’ tour of The Red Shoes and Swan Lake.