Wilton's Music Hall Announces A 'Weird and Wonderful Weekend' September 11-13

Wrecked- a new play by Pete Reed and John East

Set against the political instability of Nineteenth Century Paris,Wrecked tells the true story of Théodore Géricault. Géricault, an artist whose surviving documents and images help paint the portrait of his dramatic life, is taken from the brink of madness by a doomed love affair to the creation of his greatest painting, The Raft of Medusa.

For one night only, the crumbling grandeur of Wilton's Music Hall will be home to a cast of artists and bohemians, their lovers and their muses.

All profits from this production will go towards saving this beautiful but semi-derelict theatre.

Friday 11th September at 8pm

Stranger than Paradise

Stranger Than Paradise... Run away with the circus and a cabaret extravaganza....See such acts as the 13 piece rock and roll gypsy band (think black cat white cat) - 'The Texas Chainsaw Orchestra'! And those daredevil acrobats swinging from ropes and rafters, The Sawmill Collective.

Opera acrobatique, burlesque diva, Jose Antonio Blanco Degas (better known as Blanche Duboise) will also be performing with the modern day Noel Coward and accomplished dandy on the keys Warwick Hewson! Also experience Matthew Robins with visuals by the glorious Tim Spooner. Plus the usual madcap vagabond gypsy magic with The Stranger than Paradise DJ's.

Saturday 12th September from 7pm

Kreutzer Concert

The Italians in 18th Century London

In 1770, the Oxford Magazine poured scorn on the craze for all things Italians: "There is indeed a kind of animal, neither male nor female, a thing of the neuter gender, lately started up among us. It is called a Macaroni. It talks without meaning, it smiles without pleasantry, it eats without appetite, it rides without exercise, it wenches without passion."

However, the impact of Italian culture on the London music world was enormous. This concert explores that, from the ground breaking virtuosity and colour of Corelli, through to the last great Italian arrival of the century, Marie Antoinette's violinist, Viotti.

Sunday 13th September at 6pm

Wilton's Music Hall | Graces Alley off Ensign Street | London E1 8JB | www.wiltons.org.uk

 

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