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Category Archives: Spread Eagle Theatre
Spread Eagle starts autumn season with touch of burlesque
The Spread Eagle pub theatre begins its autumn season next Friday with a historic performance, for adults only. In her debut solo show, award-winning burlesque performer Ginger Blush is sexing up the 17th century. Ginger takes her audience on a … Continue reading
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Smoking Is Good For You, Spread Eagle Theatre, Jun 30-Jul 1
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Our Kylie’s Gettin’ Wed at the Spread Eagle Theatre, May 29-30
May 28-30 at the Spread Eagle Theatre. Bookings open here.
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Iain Lee headlines the comedy line-up at Spread Eagle
The latest season of shows at the Spread Eagle Theatre begins next week, with more comedy nights planned for the coming months, including appearances by headline acts Iain Lee, Rosie Wilby and Patrick Monahan. There is still a thread of … Continue reading
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Eagle Improv with a touch of tinsel, Spread Eagle, Dec 17
This most spiffing comedy improv outfit presents a monthly mash-up of off-the-cuff games, daring tomfoolery and feats of extraordinary imagination at The Spread Eagle Pub and Theatre. Last Christmas I gave you my heart. This year I give you a … Continue reading
Einstein is back at his brilliant best at the Spread Eagle
Our arts critic, BELLA BARTOCK, was transported in time and space when she went to the theatre this week. And she wasn’t even on the vodka My mother, when I was growing up in Budapest all those years ago, always … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Croydon, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theory of Relativity
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Going, going, Goon: last chance to catch comedy classic
If you want to see The Goon Show performed live on stage, you had better get along to the Spread Eagle Theatre tonight. It could be the last performance of the show, ever, warns BELLA BARTOCK They said that with … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Spread Eagle Theatre, The Goons
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Spread Eagle jazzes up the re-staging of The Goon Show
The Spread Eagle pub is next door to Croydon Town Hall. What better venue, then, to perform a live re-staging of The Goon Show? The latest production at the Spread Eagle Theatre next week seeks to recreate the comic lunacy … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, Croydon, Spread Eagle Theatre, The Goon Show
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Spread Eagle Theatre is tuned in for the light programme
BELLA BARTOCK, our resident culture vulture, got out her rouge and party frock to enjoy another evening at the Spread Eagle Theatre, which is celebrating its first birthday As I make my way past East Croydon Station, taking great care … Continue reading
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Competition winners get to see Tell Me About Your Ex
Inside Croydon’s loyal readers, Tania Rahman and Nadia Malik, will both be going to the theatre on Wednesday evening with a friend, thanks to our Spread Eagle Theatre competition. Both win a pair of tickets for the new show which … Continue reading
Win tickets for the opening show of Spread Eagle’s new season
Inside Croydon, together with the Spread Eagle Theatre on Croydon High Street, are delighted to present another terrific offer for our loyal reader. To mark the start of the theatre’s autumn season of productions, which open next Tuesday with Tell … Continue reading
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Fragile feelings are pub theatre’s latest acclaimed offering
The Spread Eagle Theatre’s summer season comes to a close this week with a production of an acclaimed, but also disturbing, new play, Fragile. The Katharine Street pub theatre’s partner company, Birmingham’s Old Joint Stock Theatre, presents Geoff Thompson’s chilling … Continue reading
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Summer season that offers songs, ghost stories and murder
BELLA BARTOCK found herself stalking a stalker at the beginning of the Spread Eagle Theatre’s summer season He seemed like such a nice boy at first. Quiet, polite, attentive. And loaded, too, after that big win on the Lottery. We … Continue reading
Alison: A Rock Opera, Spread Eagle Theatre, Apr 23-26
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Downton Abbey provided the clue to win theatre tickets
Inside Croydon’s loyal reader Phil Cox and a friend will be attending The Diary of a Nobody this week, courtesy of the Spread Eagle Theatre, after winning our latest reader competition. The email inbox at iC received several service warnings … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Pooter, Croydon, Downton Abbey, Hugh Bonnevile, Pooter, pubs, spread eagle, Spread Eagle Theatre
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Reader offer: Win free tickets when Mr Pooter comes to town
Inside Croydon, together with the Spread Eagle Theatre, is delighted to offer a competition in which our loyal reader can win a pair of tickets to the town centre’s newest drama venue next production, The Diary of a Nobody, which … Continue reading
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Mr Pooter is coming to Croydon in 2014 and a pub near you
“This is the diary of me, Charles Pooter. Social ladder climber. Technically middle-class, according to recently completed internet survey.” Mr Pooter is coming to Croydon, the central character is another production at the Spread Eagle Theatre, being performed on February … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Charles Pooter, Croydon, David Lean Cinema, Diary of a Nobody, East Croydon station, Mr Pooter, pubs, spread eagle, Theatre
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Babylon gets a staging at Croydon’s pub theatre
The Spread Eagle Theatre has announced its 2014 programme, which opens next month with “a romping, stonking folk musical”, called Babylon. This show, produced by The Flanagan Collective, runs on just three nights, Tuesday to Thursday, February 4-6. Tickets for … Continue reading
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Film choices that mark end of campaign’s nomadic existence
Tomorrow at the Spread Eagle on Katharine Street, the Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign begins 2014 with a free screening of Wolf Children, off the back of a Christmas season where the auditorium was just not big enough to … Continue reading
One million pages and our loyal reader is our latest winner
Inside Croydon’s loyal reader, Ken Towl, is the winner of the site’s latest free-to-enter competition. Towl got the correct answer to our question (Katharine Hepburn was the subject of the first play at the new venue on Katharine Street), and … Continue reading
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Competition: Win tickets for Twelve Dates of Christmas
Inside Croydon is delighted to be able to offer free tickets to The Twelve Dates of Christmas for the performance next Tuesday, November 26, at the Spread Eagle Theatre. Courtesy of the Old Joint Stock Theatre Company, Inside Croydon’s loyal … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham, Bridget Jones, Carrie Bradshaw, Christmas, Croydon, London, Twelve Dates of Christmas
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Sex in the Cronx is coming to the Spread Eagle Theatre
The Spread Eagle Theatre has a lot to live up to. After the touching pathos of Tea at Five and the visually stunning Dr Frankenstein’s Travelling Freakshow, Croydon’s newest little theatre is delivering up for its final production before Christmas … Continue reading
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Tagged Bridget Jones, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon South, England, London
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Hallowe’en horrors lined up for the Spread Eagle Theatre
After the success of their debut production, The Spread Eagle Theatre will next month play host to a Victorian freak show. Critically acclaimed Tin Shed Theatre Company present Mary Shelley’s classic horror, Frankenstein, like never before, immersed in the twisted … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Old Joint Stock Theatre, Performing arts, Physical theatre, Shelley, Theatre
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Waspishness, whisky and gonorrhea: a good night in Croydon
BELLA BARTOCK was out on the streets of Croydon again last night, to attend the opening of the town’s newest theatre and witness a star performance worthy of Hollywood As we took our seats for the first performance in the … Continue reading
