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Presented by Stroud Theatre Company

A scintillating new version of one of Shakespeare’s bloodiest plays.

Macbeth Alone is a thrilling and visceral reimagining of Shakespeare’s most haunting tragedy — performed by one man alone.

Set within one single cell, this is a claustrophobic descent into the fractured mind of a man determined to wear the crown forever. From the thunder of the battlefield to the silence of a sleepless night, from prophecy to paranoia, Macbeth Alone draws audiences into the psychological storm of a doomed king.

Chris Garner (Coronation Street, War Horse) portrays every character, every betrayal, every daggered vision — summoned in real time through the voice, body, and unravelling soul of one performer.

Stripped of ensemble, staging, and spectacle, what remains is raw: one man, one voice, and the ghosts that will not let him rest.

This is Shakespeare, distilled to its darkest essence — a fever dream of power, guilt, and fate.

“Garner’s solo tour-de-force. A clever and captivating performance”
★★★★ Tony Clarke

Presented by Pull Yourself Together Ltd

The Waste Land, probably T.S. Eliot’s most famous poem, was published in 1922.  “I very much hope you like the poem, as it seems to me the best I have ever done.”  

Full of classical and cultural references, this poem can be viewed as a hymn to the desolation and loss in the aftermath of WWI, but it has great humour and brings a sense of promise and hope to the bleakest of images. The evening will include a contextual preamble to The Waste Land and T.S. Eliot with Nat and director Giles Taylor. 

Nathaniel Parker reads The Waste Land and The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. “I was lucky enough to read the Waste Land at the Cheltenham Literary Festival a while back and fell in love with it. The complexities and characters are thrilling to navigate.” He also performed Four Quartets at Charleston and now reads poetry (almost daily) on his Instagram, @nathanielparker84.   

Giles Taylor, actor, director, author, choir master and classicist! Giles and Nat have appeared together on stage in Stratford, Chichester, London and on Broadway. Giles will lead the discussion about the poem, giving the audience an insight into many of the references that the poem is built around.  

Join twenty somethings Sally, Nat and Kyle in this hilarious comedy as they develop a love for, and the people involved with, Northern Soul. What started as a College project has grown into a passion, but the dance steps are exhausting. Far beyond their home city of Hull our trio find excitement, purpose and the tribe they’ve been looking for. Now they can’t get enough; from Bridlington Spa to Stoke, from London to the Blackpool Tower Ballroom our young soulies are determined to keep the faith!

This is Northern Soul for a new generation, but with rising costs, unemployment, and small town blues, has anything really changed? Is this England 1976 or 2026? The pubs are closing, hospitality has gone, and strikes are everywhere; but when you’re out on the floor …

So spread the talc and grab your loafers, our trio are heading for a weekender!

From the writer of the legendary Bouncers …

It’ll never be over for us!

“Another little dramatic gem from the pen of John Godber” — British Theatre Guide

“Infectious and exhilarating” — The Times

2024 Broadway World Award nominations for: 

BEST REGIONAL/TOURING PRODUCTION

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Emilio Encinoso-Gil
Chloe McDonald

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY 

Join Rory Kinnear at Wilton’s this February as he helps unlock an indispensable poet of intense, passionate feeling, gorgeous abundance, desire, despair and ecstatic transcendence.

Wallace Stevens was born in Pennsylvania in 1879, married once, had one child, lived most of his life in the same place, where he worked as a lawyer in the same insurance firm. He died in 1955. His biography, compared to the lives of other poets, is supremely prosaic. His poetry, by contrast, is abstract, fantastical, speculative, artificial, strange and preoccupied, self-referentially, with its own medium. And yet no poet of the twentieth century made a more brilliant case for abstraction, fantasy, speculation, artifice, strangeness and above all poetry as the medium in which we really exist. For Stevens more than almost any other poet, poetry was, quite literally, life. 

‘The poem’, according to Stevens, ‘must resist the intelligence / Almost successfully’. In the spirit of that ‘almost’, Dead Poets Live return to Wilton’s to help Stevens’s great poems yield up some of their beautiful mystery, and in so doing present the case for ‘the best and most representative poet of our time’ (Harold Bloom), author of ‘the greatest American poem of the twentieth century’ (Yvor Winters), a phrasemaker, an astonishing observer of scene and landscape, a passionate poet of many moods, whimsical, austere, comical, bleak, always delightful and, when least expected, profoundly moving. 

Photo credit: ©AP/Alamy 

The Historic 1965 Cambridge Union Debate, Reimagined 

Following critically acclaimed runs in New York City, London, Chicago and Los Angeles, the american vicarious’ radically staged production of the historic debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. is reenacted at Wilton’s Music Hall. 

The Debate 

“Is The American Dream At The Expense Of The American Negro?” 

This was the question on February 18, 1965, when an overflow crowd packed the Cambridge Union to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin — the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement — and William F. Buckley Jr., America’s most prominent conservative intellectual. 

The stage was set for an extraordinary confrontation: Baldwin’s call for a moral revolution in race relations against Buckley’s defence of the American establishment. Their exchange laid bare the deep divisions at the heart of American democracy — divisions whose echoes continue to shape our present. 

In restaging this debate, the american vicarious returns Baldwin and Buckley’s words to public conversation through the voices of contemporary artists. Sixty years later, the arguments remain piercing, the stakes undiminished, the questions still demanding our attention.

Website: www.theamericanvicarious.org
Instagram: @theamericanvicarious

Presented by Pull Yourself Together Ltd

The Waste Land, probably T.S. Eliot’s most famous poem, was published in 1922.  “I very much hope you like the poem, as it seems to me the best I have ever done.”  

Full of classical and cultural references, this poem can be viewed as a hymn to the desolation and loss in the aftermath of WWI, but it has great humour and brings a sense of promise and hope to the bleakest of images. The evening will include a contextual preamble to The Waste Land and T.S. Eliot with Nat and director Giles Taylor. 

Nathaniel Parker reads The Waste Land and The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. “I was lucky enough to read the Waste Land at the Cheltenham Literary Festival a while back and fell in love with it. The complexities and characters are thrilling to navigate.” He also performed Four Quartets at Charleston and now reads poetry (almost daily) on his Instagram, @nathanielparker84.   

Giles Taylor, actor, director, author, choir master and classicist! Giles and Nat have appeared together on stage in Stratford, Chichester, London and on Broadway. Giles will lead the discussion about the poem, giving the audience an insight into many of the references that the poem is built around.