Sadler's Wells, LondonA zany array of characters gather in a 1930s pub for a poignant, chilling and understated portrait of love, lust and longing The Midnight Bell is Matthew Bourne's bleakest work to date but it's up there with his best. The mood is fitting given that the source material is the novels of Patrick Hamilton, chronicler of the lonely, needy and seedy in alcohol-soaked 1930s Soho. Turning the likes of H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PM on October 7, 2021