A CHRISTMAS production hailed ‘the funniest and most magical nativity you will ever see’ is coming to the stage.

The Green Room’s centenary season continues with The Messiah by Patrick Barlow.

A travelling troupe of two actors and an opera singer movingly and miraculously enact the greatest story ever told.

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The troupe play a cast of thousands in a comedy that conjures up the sublime, the ridiculous and the truly angelic.

The production runs from Monday, December 2 to Saturday, December 7 at 7.45pm each evening with a matinee at 2.30pm on Saturday.

The play's author is a successful writer and performer of comedy theatre, scriptwriting and appearing in many National Theatre of Brent productions.

Patrick also wrote the popular comedy stage adaptation of John Buchan’s novel ‘The 39 Steps’, which played to packed houses at the Green Room last season.

Director John Chidgey said: "I was delighted to be asked to direct this play in this centenary year for the Green Room.

“Coincidentally, this is the 75th play I have produced here and elsewhere, having joined the Green Room 56 years ago as an actor in ‘I capture the Castle’ in 1968.

“This play brings the nativity story to life with three very talented actors playing a myriad of parts including Mary and Joseph, Herod, the Archangel Gabriel and the Three Wise Men.

“Christmas does indeed start here."

The theatre advises this production is not a pantomime and or the famous Oratorio by Handel.

In The Green Room’s opinion, the production is not suitable for children under 10 years of age.

To book tickets visit greenroomwilmslow.org.uk

The Green Room centenary season continues with Bombshells by Joanna Murray January 20-25, The Murder Room by Jack Sharkey March 17-22, The Titfield Thunderbolt by Philip Goulding May 12-17and an ensemble production to be announced in June or July.