Olivier Award winner Miles Western will star as Hannibal Lecter in director/choreographer Christopher Gattelli's production of SILENCE! The Musical, to play the Above the Stag Theatre in Victoria, January 19-February 28.

This unauthorised parody of the film The Silence of the Lambs features a book by 2009 Tony Award nominee Hunter Bell and music and lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan. It follows F.B.I. trainee Clarice Starling as she uses her relationship with Dr. Hannibal Lecter to hunt serial killer Buffalo Bill. Gattelli originally staged SILENCE! at the New York International Fringe Festival.

The cast will also include Fabian Hartwell (Buffalo Bill), Catherine Millsom (Catherine), and Bart Williams, with the part of Clarice still to be cast.

For more information, visit www.abovethestag.com.