Wilton's Vintage Christmas

If there's a more festive venue in London than Wilton's , the world's oldest surviving music hall, I've yet to find it. This colourfully shabby place has hosted a Christmas knees-up or two, seen antics that would make even the raciest reveller blush. An inspired idea, then, to present a Christmas variety show here - carols and music hall songs punctuated by poetry and excerpts from Dickens and Shakespeare - capitalising on the vogue for all things vintage with the title. Our host is the original landlord John Wilton (Graham Seed, aka Nigel in The Archers ) who, with his troupe of seven, clad in floor-sweeping velvet coats, frocks, cravats and tweed, gallops through the festive hits. It's like a series of old-fashioned Christmas cards brought to life. The acting may be slightly ham, the set pieces occasionally like audition monologues, but given the setting it's impossible not to feel a little misty-eyed, mulled wine in hand.