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Post by kasper on Nov 24, 2019 8:57:44 GMT
I just read a tweet about Stockwell Playhouse. Yesterday would have been their last day.
Does anyone know what happened?
Their website is allready offline.
Strange.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2019 11:51:16 GMT
Only explanation I can see from them is a reply they made to someone else's tweet ....
Looks like whatever happened was quite sudden!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2019 12:22:07 GMT
They had 'so long,farewell' on their electric billboards all week and when it didnt show a production of TSOM, I assumed they were closing.
It's a nice little venue but very much under the radar. It's changed its name a few times too. Maybe someone else will take over the running of it?
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Post by firefingers on Nov 24, 2019 13:08:14 GMT
Having done a show there it just wasn't very practical but was run with a great deal of love. The seats werent comfy and ot was very pokey with no wings so all entrances had to be upstage, but the guys who ran it worked very hard and it's a shame that no big shows were able to make a name for it.
I wonder what the future holds as it's not really a space that can be utilised for anything else. It was a lecture theatre before a theatre, so maybe that?
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Post by Someone in a tree on Nov 24, 2019 13:30:24 GMT
I went to a few things here but always on a comp.
Its always felt like you were watching something in a lecture hall and not a performance space
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2019 15:54:28 GMT
it could work as a small cabaret/concert venue but its not a space for full length productions.
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Post by Phantom of London on Nov 24, 2019 16:50:09 GMT
It took for them to announce their demise in this very thread for me to hear of them. Maybe a clue there, why they didn’t make it.
Or could it be they were known under a different name?
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Post by profquatermass on Nov 24, 2019 16:58:08 GMT
I liked it but it as slightly awkward to get to, not being particularly near a tube. There are a whole bunch or fringe theatres round there that I suspect struggle (though I think the Oval House is moving nearer Brixton which will probably help it)
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Post by FrontrowverPaul on Nov 24, 2019 19:30:22 GMT
Sad news. I've seen a few amateur musicals there including an exceptional Avenue Q last year and a sold out Spring Awakening a few months ago.
At least there have been some new theatre openings in London this year and hope the amateur groups that used it find new homes.
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Post by profquatermass on Nov 24, 2019 20:05:55 GMT
It took for them to announce their demise in this very thread for me to hear of them. Maybe a clue there, why they didn’t make it. Or could it be they were known under a different name? They used to be The Lost Theatre and were funded for youth productions. Last show I saw there was a Sweeney done by one of the posh amdram companies that use the Bridewell |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2019 21:16:05 GMT
LOST Theatre was an odd name as Lost was the London Oratory School Theatre, Theatre...
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Post by jaqs on Nov 25, 2019 13:21:31 GMT
I saw a lot of things there when it was the Lost theatre, I lived a couple of stops away on the bus. So out of touch since I moved that I’d not realised they’d changed names.
Saw an excellent one act play festival there a few years ago.
Lovely venue, shame it’s closing.
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Post by schuttep on Nov 27, 2019 11:19:37 GMT
I liked it but it as slightly awkward to get to, not being particularly near a tube. There are a whole bunch or fringe theatres round there that I suspect struggle (though I think the Oval House is moving nearer Brixton which will probably help it) The new Oval House theatre is currently being built at the back of Brixton Village Market on Coldharbour Lane. |
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Post by partytentdown on Nov 27, 2019 18:12:28 GMT
LOST Theatre was an odd name as Lost was the London Oratory School Theatre, Theatre... Wikipedia says that the school originally founded the theatre and it then moved to a couple of other locations before ending up in Stockwell. |
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Post by NorthernAlien on Nov 27, 2019 20:29:35 GMT
Sad news. I've seen a few amateur musicals there including an exceptional Avenue Q last year and a sold out Spring Awakening a few months ago. At least there have been some new theatre openings in London this year and hope the amateur groups that used it find new homes. Ah! I saw that Spring Awakening - I had no clue what it was about before it started, and a look of horror crossed my friend's face when I asked her for the most salient points as we walked there from the pub conveniently located between the tube and the theatre. I quite enjoyed it, and it turned out that I knew someone in the cast - the theatre world in London somehow being remarkably small! I also saw an absolutely awful version of The Importance of Being Earnest much earlier in the year. The less said about it, the better. I thought the auditorium was OK, but the ladies toilets were far too few in number, and there was far too little seating in the overly hot bar area. If someone takes it on they need air con in that area, and to somehow facilitate more ladies loos. Which is probably almost impossible... |
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Post by ftfadia on Nov 28, 2019 19:43:39 GMT
I liked it but it as slightly awkward to get to, not being particularly near a tube. There are a whole bunch or fringe theatres round there that I suspect struggle (though I think the Oval House is moving nearer Brixton which will probably help it) What are some of the other ones? I don't live too far from there and had no idea, would be fun to check some of these out! |
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