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The Car Man review " Matthew Bourne's smouldering storytelling by Luke Jennings

Sadler's Wells, LondonA revival of Matthew Bourne's small-town tale of a mysterious mechanic is sultry perfectionMatthew Bourne's The Car Man, first staged in 2000, is a dance show with abundant influences. The piece is set to an adaptation by Terry Davies of music from Bizet's opera Carmen, and the plot loosely based on James M Cain's much-filmed novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. The result, a noirish tale of se…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM on July 19, 2015

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