Wilton's Music Hall Announces 2018 Spring Season Packed with Top-Class Theatre Productions and Dance Adaptations

Wilton's Music Hall have just announced their 2018 spring season, following on from a stellar year of world class theatre and music productions spanning every genre from musicals to opera to cabaret. Next year's season is no different, as Europe's oldest surviving grand music hall plays host to a range of spectacular theatre and dance, teaming up with a number of prestigious production companies.

Kneehigh presents a mesmerising production of the award-winning and critically acclaimed The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk (17 January - 10 February) to get the new year started, with Wilton's providing the perfect backdrop for a play that 'wraps you in the soaring giddiness and deep solace of overwhelming love' (4* Financial Times). Partners in life and on canvas, Marc and Bella Chagall are immortalised as the picture of romance. But whilst on canvas they flew, in life they walked through some of the most devastating times in history. Directed by Emma Rice, this mesmerising production makes a welcome return to London, following its sold out run at the Sam Wanamaker playhouse last year. Daniel Jamieson's play traces the young couple as they navigate the Pogroms, the Russian Revolution, and each other with live klezmer music from Ian Ross and James Gow inspired by Russian Jewish folk tradition.

East London's favourite old-fashioned knees-up, Carradine's Cockney Sing-a-long, is back for an uproarious night of song on 13 February, with traditional popular songs from across the decades, Music Hall ditties, World War I and II songs and West End show tunes.

The enormously popular OneTrackMinds (14 & 15 February) is returning to Wilton's for the ultimate evening of storytelling and music as a selection of writers, musicians and thinkers come together to present a song that changed their life. A thought-provoking celebration of the power of music, this is TED Talks meets Desert Island Discs meets The Moth Radio. Past guests have included actress Jessie Buckley, legendary songwriter and music manager Simon Napier Bell, Tulip Siddiq MP and poet Lemn Sissay.

Multi-award-winning Mark Bruce Company present a striking dance theatre re-imagining of Shakespeare's Macbeth (23 February - 17 March), the classic tale of ambition, corruption and power. Goaded by the whispers of demons, the Macbeths (Jonathan Goddard and Eleanor Duval) unleash murder for their own gains and set in motion their path to madness and self-destruction, unravelling events in a nightmare they cannot control. With a cast of nine and designed by the creative team behind Dracula and The Odyssey, this dance theatre production realises a beautifully harrowing vision of an internal wasteland formed from the pursuit of power through ruthless means.

Making its European and London premiere at Wilton's Music Hall is the extraordinary acting and singing one-woman tour de force, Songs for Nobodies (21 March - 7 April). Bringing together five iconic divas; Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf and Maria Callas and five ordinary women whose lives were changed by a chance encounter with a star, the story is told through the incredible talents of singer and actress Bernadette Robinson, for whom the production was written specially. Following two Australian national tours, rave reviews and unanimous critical acclaim, Robinson seamlessly brings to life each 'nobody' and embodies each legend as their stories and songs magically combine in this funny yet heartfelt play with music written by renowned playwright Joanna Murray-Smith and directed by the man behind Priscilla Queen Of The Desert Simon Philips. Robinson effortlessly shifts from the smoky blues of Billie Holiday to the thrilling soprano of Maria Callas, via Garland, Cline and Piaf, in an extraordinary performance accompanied by live musicians that has been described as 'virtuosic, beautifully written, triumphantly performed' (Sydney Morning Herald). Dazzling its way to Europe and the West End for the very first time, this is set to be a truly moving and uplifting theatrical event and one not to be missed.

Time-travelling magicians and Wilton's associates Morgan & West are back on the road with their brand-new magic show Morgan and West - More Magic for Kids - Bigger, Bolder and more brilliant than before! For kids, adults and anyone in between, this marvellous spectacle is coming to Wilton's from 4 to 6 April. Bigger, better and containing even more magic than before, this is a raucous and ridiculous show jam-packed with surprises, unbelievable feats and a load of silliness....Fresh from appearing on ITV1's The Next Great Magician and sell-out seasons 2015-2017 at the Edinburgh Fringe, Wilton's are ready to get magic!

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