Matthew Bourne's The Car Man
Wednesday 30 September 2026 · 7:30pm · £21.20
Tickets are sold on the venue's own site.
Add to calendarMatthew Bourne’s award-winning The Car Man is back! Loosely based on Bizet’s ever-popular opera, The Car Man has one of the most thrilling and instantly recognisable scores in New Adventures’ repertoire.
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.
The Car Man story is told entirely through dance and music with no speech. This visual guide contains images and information about the characters, story and the production in general. It is designed for audiences who want to familiarise themselves with the story before they get to the theatre. We hope this resource supports your experience of the show.
Content warnings The Car Man contains scenes of a sexual nature, brief male nudity, strobe lighting and gunshots.
Norwich Theatre Royal, Theatre Street, Norwich, NR2 1RL
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