Wilton’s Music Hall announces exciting and ambitious 2022 Autumn season
Wilton’s Music Hall have announced a magnificent Autumn season for August-December 2022, with an impressive array of world-class theatre, music, comedy and opera in collaboration with a variety of distinguished production companies and talent.
London’s most festive venue is thrilled to present the world premiere of The Wind in the Willows Wilton’s from 24 November – 31 December for its Christmas spectacular. This brand-new adaptation written by Piers Torday is based on Kenneth Grahame’s much loved The Wind in the Willows and set in modern-day London. The Wind in the Willows Wilton’s is a fun, festive show for all the family, bringing up-to-date the Edwardian original with a playful wit and charm, with our heroes tackling modern-day climate issues (although Toad seems less keen), offering a tale of sustainable hope. There will be songs, puppetry and all the favourite characters will be there – Ratty, Mole, Badger, Toad and the Weasels. Not to mention a picnic or two…
Piers Torday is teaming up with director Elizabeth Freestone and designer Tom Piper, with original songs by Piers Torday and Chris Warner, lighting by Zoe Spurr, movement by Emma Brunton and puppets by Sam Wyer.
Hot on the heels of a sensational run in New York, the critically acclaimed, genre-defying new show Only an Octave Apart makes its UK debut at Wilton’s from 28 September–22 October, starring Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo. Carving a new pathway between opera and politically subversive cabaret, this joyous and surprising musical fantasia revels in everything strange and beautiful in the coexistence of contrasts from Purcell’s 17th century aria ‘Dido’s Lament’ to Dido’s early 2000s hit ‘White Flag’, from ‘Autumn Leaves’ to ‘The Waters of March’. Celebrating the historical and the hysterical, from countertenor to counterculture, Only An Octave Apart is co-created and directed by Zack Winokur, with music supervision by Thomas Bartlett, arrangements by Nico Muhly, musical direction by Daniel Schlosberg, and unique costume design by JW Anderson.
For those seeking drama, Fuel presents the world premiere of David Farr’s new play A Dead Body in Taos from 26 October – 12 November: part mystery, part sci-fi epic in an intimate study of loss and bereavement. A 70-year-old woman, Kath Horvath, is found dead in a New Mexico desert and on her body the police find a cryptic message for her daughter Sam. The play tells Sam’s story as she travels to the small town of Taos to bury her estranged mother, along the way uncovering her traumatic past. Directed by Rachel Bagshaw, the show is designed by Ti Green, with video design by Sarah Readman, and the cast features Gemma Lawrence as Sam and Eve Ponsonby as Kath.
Bringing world-class music and a brand-new show to the Wilton’s stage, the legendary Olivier award winning and Grammy nominated post-punk, cult cabaret super stars the Tiger Lillies return with a new narrative concert; The Last Days of Mankind from 6 – 17 September. First published over a hundred years ago, The Last Days of Mankind is one of the most important works by the fearless Austrian satirical writer Karl Kraus. Martyn Jacques, founder of The Tiger Lillies, has written a new suite of songs inspired by the biting sarcasm and absurdity, the black humour and inhumanity of these original works.
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