Matthew Bourne's award-winning dance thriller The Car Man, loosely based on Bizet's Carmen, transplants the story to a 1950s American garage-diner.
Matthew Bourne's The Car Man comes to King's Theatre from Tuesday 27 to Saturday 31 October, a dance thriller from New Adventures that takes Bizet's Carmen and drops it into a sweltering 1950s American Mid-West garage-diner. The original opera's 19th-century Spanish cigarette factory is gone; in its place is a small town where the arrival of a handsome, enigmatic stranger shatters everyone's dreams and passions, sending the whole place into a spiral of greed, lust, betrayal and revenge. The story is told entirely through dance, with no singing, and runs for two hours.
It's a New Adventures production, with music by Terry Davies featuring Rodion Shchedrin's Carmen Suite (after Bizet's Carmen). The whole thing is recommended for ages 15 and over, and there's a fair bit to be aware of before you book: it contains scenes of a sexual nature including sexual assault, brief frontal male nudity, smoking, strobe lighting, haze, gunshots and violent scenes with blood. If you're not sure about any of that, there's a Visual Guide available to check beforehand.
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It's a short run, so you'll want to pick your slot early. Performances are Tuesday to Thursday at 19:30, with Saturday having both a 14:30 matinee and a 19:30 evening show. Thursday and Saturday also have matinees at 14:30, so there are plenty of options across the week if a weekday evening doesn't work for you. Standard tickets range from £35 to £137, and the show runs for two hours. You'll find it at King's Theatre, 297 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4JN.
