David Hoyle and Richard Thomas: Merrie Hell

Get nasty this nativity … “The Divine” David Hoyle and Richard “Jerry Springer” Thomas come together with a trashy, meaty buffet of festive filth and sick songs. Stick your big toe into a laddered stocking stuffed with Crimbo melodies redolent of tangerines, tinsel, telly, tears and terror.

Having previously worked together on award-winning feature film Uncle David, our two bad fairies Hoyle and Thomas bring their own alternative Christmas celebration to Soho Downstairs for nights of sin and song. Join them … or else!

Richard Thomas is an award-winning writer/composer, best known for creating and composing Jerry Springer: The Opera with Stewart Lee, for which won multiple Olivier Awards and has played West End, Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House and Peckham. BBC Two aired his series Kombat Opera, comprising five half-hour TV musicals. Most recently, Thomas wrote and composed the dance musical, Shoes, which transferred from Sadler’s Wells to the West End in 2010, as well as writing the book and lyrics for the smash Royal Opera House hit in 2011, Anna Nicole which has US debut in 2013 in New York.

David Hoyle is a renowned performance artist, avant-garde cabaret artist, singer, actor, comedian, film director, and creator of The Divine David, an ‘anti- drag queen’ character who fronted several series’ on Channel 4. Hoyle has also appeared in Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker’s Nathan Barley and in recent years, he has returned to the stage with a string of live shows; Magazine (2007), Dave’s Drop-In (2009), Licking Wounds (2010) and Lives (2011). In 2010 he released his own feature film Uncle David, which he both directed and starred in.

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