Matthew Bourne's The Car Man is a contemporary ballet production by English choreographer Matthew Bourne. Based on Rodion Shchedrin's ballet version of Carmen with a plot that loosely resembles James M. Cain's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, the show is renowned for its homoeroticism and explicit depictions of sex and violence. Set in the 1960s in a fictional mid-western town in the US, The Car Man follows the story of Italian Americans in the heat of the youth counter culture.
