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The revival of Matthew Bourne's The Car Man is on youtube here. I love this ballet, I have it on DVD with the original cast, but I watched this new version yesterday with great pleasure.
I love Matthew Bourne’s choreography. I saw six of his ballets: Swan Lake (the first one I saw and still my favorite), The Car Man, Nutcracker, Play Without Words (based on the Joseph Losey’s movie The Servant), The Sleeping Beauty and Dorian Gray. Nutcracker was pretty meh for me, but I loved the rest. And I had the pleasure of watching Play Without Words and Dorian Gray on stage in Sadler’s Wells Theater in London. I wish both of those ballets were available on DVD, too. I’d love to watch them again.
The music in The Car Man is a combination of the Bolshoi Ballet version of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, with additional music by composer Terry Davies. All this ballet have in common with Carmen is around 40 minutes of Bizet’s music. The plot is completely different and inspired by The Postman Always Rings Twice. It’s a noir story about lust and murder, and betrayal, with beautiful and sensuous dancing. It’s a story of a drifter Luca who arrives in a small town somewhere in the USA and gets hired as a mechanic by the owner of the Dino’s Garage. He seduces both Lana, the wife of the owner, and the young man Angelo, who works there as a hired help. Of course it leads to drama and tragedy.
And I saw that The Car Man had been nominated for Multifandom Drabble Exchange. I hope someone will request this fandom. I’m not up to signing up for exchanges just yet, but treating is something I could do. 😊
ETA: I forgot to say that it’s available on youtube only for a week starting from 16th, so tomorrow is the last day. If you’d like to watch it you have to hurry or download it for later. 😊
I love Matthew Bourne’s choreography. I saw six of his ballets: Swan Lake (the first one I saw and still my favorite), The Car Man, Nutcracker, Play Without Words (based on the Joseph Losey’s movie The Servant), The Sleeping Beauty and Dorian Gray. Nutcracker was pretty meh for me, but I loved the rest. And I had the pleasure of watching Play Without Words and Dorian Gray on stage in Sadler’s Wells Theater in London. I wish both of those ballets were available on DVD, too. I’d love to watch them again.
The music in The Car Man is a combination of the Bolshoi Ballet version of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, with additional music by composer Terry Davies. All this ballet have in common with Carmen is around 40 minutes of Bizet’s music. The plot is completely different and inspired by The Postman Always Rings Twice. It’s a noir story about lust and murder, and betrayal, with beautiful and sensuous dancing. It’s a story of a drifter Luca who arrives in a small town somewhere in the USA and gets hired as a mechanic by the owner of the Dino’s Garage. He seduces both Lana, the wife of the owner, and the young man Angelo, who works there as a hired help. Of course it leads to drama and tragedy.
And I saw that The Car Man had been nominated for Multifandom Drabble Exchange. I hope someone will request this fandom. I’m not up to signing up for exchanges just yet, but treating is something I could do. 😊
ETA: I forgot to say that it’s available on youtube only for a week starting from 16th, so tomorrow is the last day. If you’d like to watch it you have to hurry or download it for later. 😊
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