The Car Man will return for a 2026 UK tour including a return to Lowry, Salford from Tuesday 23nd to Saturday 27th June 2026 ahead of a 5-week summer season at Sadler’s Wells in London.
Loosely based on Bizet’s ever-popular opera, it 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 said: “I never dreamed when we created this show at the beginning of the new millennium that it would still be around, thrilling audiences, 25 years later! Inspired by vintage movie film noir classics, it holds a unique and special place in the New Adventures repertory as the only piece based on an opera and possibly the first ballet to feature a bi-sexual anti-hero! I’m particularly happy that we are taking the show “on the road” again after more than 10 years and I can’t wait to re-visit the hot and steamy town of Harmony USA – the best place to be next Summer!”
Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man
TUESDAY 23rd to SATURDAY 27th JUNE 2026
LOWRY, SALFORD
ON SALE 21 NOVEMBER 2025
