Wilton's Music Hall Presents WILTON'S VINTAGE CHRISTMAS 12/6-18

Wilton's Music Hall presents a traditional Victorian Christmas this year with WILTON'S VINTAGE CHRISTMAS devised and directed by Nick Hutchison, which opens on Tuesday 7 December, previewing from 6 December. The limited season, which runs for only 11 performances, will end on Saturday 18 December. John Wilton will play host to an evening which mixes Charles Dickens with Henry Mayhew, Christmas carols with music hall songs, poetry with variety-style entertainment. The entire hall will be bedecked in seasonal Victorian decoration. After the 85-minute performance, the audience will be welcome to stay and enjoy some seasonal fayre - mulled wine, roasted chestnuts and more.

The cast of WILTON'S VINTAGE CHRISTMAS will be led by Graham Seed as John Wilton. Graham has played Nigel Pargetter in The Archers for the past 30 years. His television and film work includes I Claudius, Brideshead Revisited, Jeeves and Wooster and, most recently, the film Wild Target, which starred Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt and Rupert Grint and was released earlier this year. The rest of the cast will include Amanda Claire-Jones, Michael Fenton Stevens (Pete Versus Life, My Family, Ladies of Letters, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Lead Balloon, My Hero, Katy Brand's Big Ass Show), Lottie Latham, Vincent Leigh (DS Sam Palmer in Trial & Retribution), Charlotte Newton John and Owen Pugh. Michael Fenton Stevens was an original member of the comedy rock band The HeeBeeGeeBees, whose song ‘Meaningless Songs in Very High Voices' was a number one hit in Australia. He also had a number one single in the UK with ‘The Chicken Song' from the TV series Spitting Image.

WILTON'S VINTAGE CHRISTMAS is devised and directed by Nick Hutchison, who also directed Taming of the Shrew with Rachael Stirling and Oliver Chris at Wilton's Music Hall in 2007, which was designed by Annie Gosney, the production designer for WILTON'S VINTAGE CHRISTMAS. Lighting is by Filippo de Capitani, and the musical director is Philip Pope. Philip's other work as a musical director/composer includes the TV shows Outnumbered, My Hero, Gimme Gimme Gimme, The Fast Show, KYTV, Spitting Image, Who Dares Wins, Not the Nine O'Clock News and the Dame Edna Show. He wrote the ‘Blackadder Christmas Carol' and was part of the Oxford University Revue with Richard Curtis and Angus Deayton, which became the award-winning radio series Radio Active.