The season will include a range of theatre, music and comedy performances for audiences to enjoy in the East End of London.
The Wilton’s Music Hall has announced details of its forthcoming Autumn 2024 season, which will feature performers including Anton Lesser, Rupert Everett, and Tim Key; with performances from the National Youth Theatre, the internationally renowned Släpstick, music from the Swingles, Brian Clemens and Francesca Confortini and many more.
This new season will begin with Franks Closet (3rd-14th September), a musical theatre show which framed by the artifice of the musical hall and propelled by the increasingly surreal musical turns of the divas. It transfers to the music hall, following a run at the Union Street Theatre.
Rhum and Clay join forces with the National Youth Theatre REP company for a production of The War of The Worlds, which will be performed at the theatre from the 16th to the 26th October.
Sasha Regan returns to Wilton’s Music Hall with her production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates Of Penzance (29th October – 23rd November).
The season will also feature Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse For England (25th-27th September. Written and performed by Alex Hill, this new play about football fanatics arrives at Wilton’s following runs at the Edinburgh Festival and Southwark Theatre.
For those who enjoy spoken word performances, there is plenty to be found at Wilton’s this season with Red Sky at Sunrise (25-27 September) which tells Laurie Lee’s extraordinary story through his much-loved trilogy, Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, and A Moment of War with music from the Orchestra of Swan. Two of the UK’s best-loved actors, Anton Lesser (Game of Thrones, Wolf Hall, Endeavour) and Charlie Hamblett (Killing Eve, Ghosts, The Burning Girls) play the role of Laurie Lee older and younger, along with a rich array of other characters telling his story from when he famously walked out of the Slad valley one midsummer morning and ended up fighting with the International Brigades against Franco’s forces in the Spanish Civil War.
Presented by Dead Poets Live, Wilton’s will be hosting The Man with Night Sweats (2nd-4th October), considered to by Thom Gunn’s finest and most moving collection of poetry, addressing the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Thom Gunn’s death and this new production will star BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated actor, a director and author Rupert Everett.
World-class musicians from the internationally renowned musical clowns Släpstick will present Schërzo (07-12 October) a totally unique and brilliant show of classical music, physical theatre, and raucous comedy. Masterpieces from Rossini, Brahms, Schubert, Saint-Saëns, Gershwin, and more, meet comedy heroes such as Victor Borge, Laurel & Hardy, Danny Kaye, and Charlie Chaplin in this clownish concerto which is in English.
More comedy will be provided by CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation (28th September) as it returns to Wilton’s for another rip-roaring crime comedy show made up entirely on the spot to solve a murder as chosen by the audience.
Tom Carradine and his alternative superstars and singing siblings and the uproarious, good old-fashioned knees up that is Carradine’s Cockney Sing-along returns (24th September) and Carradine’s Cockney Sing-along Featuring Tom Carradine And His China Plates (25th November) where he is accompanied by his incredible 5-piece band.
The Swingles present Together For The Holidays (27th November) to open the festive season and fill the hall with holiday favourites and plenty of good cheer and more joyful merriment from Martin (Prendergast) & Friends – It’s Christmas (28th November) who are back at Wilton’s with their first-ever Christmas cabaret.
More festive joy will come from comedian and poet Tim Key as he brings his Christmas extravaganza Chrimbo Bimbo (9th, 10th, 16th & 17th December) to Wilton’s. He will tether his long-suffering reindeer in Grace Alley and shove his hands in his sack once more. There will be sleighbells, grubby old sprouts, and some festive film footage to boot. Christmas jumpers will be encouraged.
Finally, Christmas at Wilton’s will be celebrated by the return of Potted Panto (4th December-4th January) back for its second year in the East End of London to provide plenty of fun for the whole family.
To find out more and to book tickets visit: https://www.wiltons.org.uk/