Greenwich Theatre
alias Crowder's Music Hall and Picture Gallery, Parthenon, Rose & Crown Music Hall, Greenwich Hippodrome, Parthenon Palace of Varieties, Barnard's, Green'sStockwell Street, | |
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History
This theatre opened in the 1860s as Crowden's Music-Hall, and later became Barnard's Palace and then the Hippodrome. Between the First and Second World Wars it was used as a cinema and then as a warehouse. In 1962 its present director, Ewan Hooper, began a campaign for its restoration and reopening as a community theatre for south-east London, and in Oct. 1969 opened it with a new musical, Martin Luther King, followed by Spithead, a documentary on the Royal Navy mutiny in 1797. Since then a number of new plays have been staged, including Iris Murdoch's The Servants and the Snow and John Mortimer's A Voyage Round My Father (both 1970). The theatre, in which much of the 1860 structure has been retained, has a hexagonal thrust stage protruding into a steeply-raked auditorium which seats 426 people. Among its front-of-house amenities are Barnard's restaurant, Crowden's coffee bar, and an art gallery. Attached to the theatre is the Bowsprit Company, which tours local schools and at Christmas gives matinee performances for children in the theatre.
In: Hartnoll, Phyllis, ed. The concise Oxford companion to the theatre. 1st ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1972. ISBN 0-19-281102-9. p. 220
Author: Hartnoll Phyllis
Hartnoll Phyllis:
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