Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man – Newcastle
Theatre Royal welcomes back Matthew Bourne’s award-winning The Car Man, loosely based on Bizet’s ever-popular opera and featuring one of the most thrilling, instantly recognisable scores in New Adventures’ repertoire.
The familiar 19th-century Spanish cigarette factory becomes a greasy 1950s garage-diner in the American Midwest, where the dreams and passions of a small town are shattered by the arrival of a handsome and enigmatic stranger.
Fuelled by heat and desire, the inhabitants are driven into an unstoppable spiral of greed, lust, betrayal and revenge. Matthew Bourne’s vivid storytelling combines with music by Terry Davies, featuring Rodion Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite, to create a dance thriller like no other. It’s 15+, with strobes, flashing lights, adult scenes of a sexual nature, including sexual assault, and depictions of violence throughout.
