Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell UK Tour
May 10, 2021 Last updated:
May 10, 2021
New Adventures have announced the World Premiere of Matthew Bourne’s THE MIDNIGHT BELL opening at Cheltenham Everyman on 9 September 2021, as part of a UK tour to 13 venues including a season at Sadler’s Wells from 4 to 9 October 2021.
Exploring the under-belly of 1930s London life where ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses nightly to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams in the pubs and bars of fog-bound Soho and Fitzrovia. Step inside The Midnight Bell, a tavern where one particular lonely-hearts club gather to play out their lovelorn affairs of the heart; bitter comedies of longing, frustration, betrayal and redemption.
Al fresco Britain has been a washout. Please let us back inside pubs and restaurants
What hardened pub-goers really pine for is warm ale and a murky interior: the cosy fug that alchemises from log fires, beer fumes and gossip
8 May 2021 • 7:00am
I know Samuel Johnson coined his witticism “the triumph of hope over experience” for second marriages, but it’s even better suited to the British weather. As meteorologists and soothsayers know, the more keenly anticipated the event, the viler the downpour. Anyone who plans a second wedding for August is tacitly inviting a Shakespearean tempest. And this is why those of us who expressed ecstasy at the thought of pubs reopening were doomed to see our cherished pints topped with layers of hail.
by William Palmer (Robinson £20, 262pp)
The size of my monthly Majestic Wine bill suggests author William Palmer is not wrong when he says that writers ‘psychologically slippery’ at the best of times are particularly prone to the joys and pitfalls of grain and grape.
Booze, ‘at least at the outset, is hugely enjoyable’, Palmer says correctly. It is ‘an excellent buffer against social boredom,’ and any other sort of boredom.
Drawing on the descriptions by Anthony Burgess and Kingsley Amis, In Love With Hell evokes the idyll currently denied us the traditional street-corner pub: the frosted panes of glass and etched mirrors in the Saloon Bar, the ‘constant hubbub of conversation’ and the landlord calling out the greatest six words in the English language, ‘Yes Sir, what will you have?’
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