Dance REVIEW: Matthew Bourne's The Car Man - ★★★★★
Matthew Bourne’s award-winning The Car Man is back! Based on Bizet’s ever-popular opera, The Car Man has one of the most thrilling and instantly recognisable scores in New Adventures’ repertoire.
Fuelled by heat and desire
The familiar 19th Century Spanish cigarette factory becomes a greasy 1950’s garage-diner in the American Mid-West 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 one of the most passionately dramatic scores ever written, with music by Terry Davies featuring Rodion Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite (after Bizet’s Carmen), to create a dance thriller like no other.
The Car Man will ignite your senses and leave you breathless.
Where?
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh - Part of World Tour
Stewart - ★★★★★
"Did it get hot in that theatre or was it just me!? This sultry, steamy dance thriller plays like Tennesse Williams version of West Side Story with a sweaty dollop of cheesy American '90s erotic thriller.
The dancing is phenomenal from Matthew Bourne's ensemble and it's fantastic to see that The Car Man is doing the rounds again as it remains one of the dance choreographer's most popular shows. And it's not hard to see why, it's a fantastic atmospheric piece that will have you getting hot under the collar (should that be bonnet?) - just watch your interval ice cream doesn't melt.
It does feed into the melodrama quite a bit but that's part of the fun. I don't want to give too much away storywise as it's a fun little potboiler on its own merit. Its worth just coming along and catching this risque piece of dance theatre - there's nothing much else out there like it. Phenomenal."
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