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Tag Archives: Warehouse Theatre
Town Hall’s theatre of the absurd to stage some real drama
Having closed down its original venue and with its alternative venue temporarily shut for refurbishment, Croydon Council has had to turn over the Town Hall chamber this weekend to the Warehouse Theatre for it to be able to stage its … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Croydon Council, Timothy Godfrey, Warehouse Theatre
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Your chance to drink to the future of the Warehouse Theatre
It’s been said often enough, possibly a tad cruelly, that Croydon’s Town Hall chamber has too frequently provided a platform for comedians or staged unconvincing melodramas. Come September, the chamber will for once stage some real drama when the Warehouse … Continue reading
Warehouse Theatre celebrates 30 years of playwriting festival
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the International Playwriting Festival organised by the late and much-lamented Warehouse Theatre. The Warehouse Theatre, housed in an old coal merchants’ warehouse on the edge of what is now the Ruskin Square development, … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Labour, Ruskin Square, Stanhope-Schroder, Tory, Warehouse Theatre
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International playwriting festival at Fairfield Halls, June 6-7
The Warehouse Theatre’s 2015 International Playwriting Festival will take place at the new studio theatre at the Fairfield Halls on June 6 and 7. The deadline for entries for this year’s competition has been extended to March 15. The IPF … Continue reading
Posted in Art, East Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Ruskin Square, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Warehouse Theatre
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Youth theatre group seeks volunteers to build for the future
Posted in Activities, Art, Community associations, CYTO, Theatre
Tagged Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation, CYTO, Warehouse Theatre
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Addiscombe teacher’s tale of Hastings Banda attracts plaudits
Among the four plays in the final of the International Playwriting Festival being staged at the Fairfield Halls this weekend is a new piece called Ngwasi, written by a science teacher at Trinity School, David Klempner. Born in Cape Town, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fairfield Halls, Schools, Theatre, Trinity School, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged drama, Fairfield Halls, Hastings Banda, Malawi, Warehouse Theatre, Whitgift Foundation
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Festival plays put on real shows in weekend competition
The Warehouse Theatre’s International Playwriting Festival takes place at the Fairfield Halls next weekend, May 17-18. This is the 28th year of the festival, a product of the former Warehouse Theatre’s new playwriting policy. The festival is produced by Warehouse … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Warehouse Theatre
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Local arts cuts: “It isn’t about money, it’s about pride”
Croydon’s internationally renowned Warehouse Theatre closed last year when the local council withdrew its modest subsidy. Its historic building was recently demolished. Here, actor SAMUEL WEST explains why theatre matters Where does theatre belong in a healthy society? It’s one … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Arts, Danny Boyle, National Campaign, National Campaign for the Arts, Olympic, Samuel West, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
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The Eagle has landed a future for studio theatre in Croydon
Central Croydon is to get a new performing arts space – inspired by the Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign and with productions brought to south London all the way from Birmingham. For the past six months, the world-renowned Old … Continue reading
Gone to pots: Protest against Riesco sell-off gathers pace
In just two days, 100 people, all angered by the council’s secret plans to flog off the Riesco Collection, have signed a petition to protest this latest piece of cultural vandalism in Croydon. Inside Croydon last week exposed the deceit … Continue reading
No news is good news as BID is living in the past
“A warm welcome to Croydon Town Centre”, the slick website of Croydon’s Business “Improvement” District says. To illustrate this it is using a picture of the sadly missed Warehouse Theatre, which closed more than a year ago for lack of … Continue reading
Playwriting Festival lives on after Warehouse closure
The International Playwriting Festival which for the past 26 years has been staged at the Warehouse Theatre has found a new producer and a new home. Warehouse Phoenix, a company formed by members and friends of the Warehouse Theatre in … Continue reading
It’s ordinary people who pay for council’s £43m incompetence
The Sage of Waddon, ARFUR TOWCRATE, on the injustices created by Croydon Council as its allows its mountain of uncollected Council Tax to grow ever larger A few years ago I received a court summons from Croydon Council for not … Continue reading
Fairfield in discussions over cinema use of new studio threatre
Supporters of two of the borough’s neglected arts venues, the David Lean Cinema and the Warehouse Theatre, are expected to be very concerned that management at Fairfield Halls have been holding meetings with cinema operators over the possible use of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Comedy, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Dudley Mead, Fairfield, Fairfield Halls, Margaret Mead, Planning, Property, Ruskin Square, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, URV, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema, Fairfield Halls, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Warehouse Theatre
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Picasso in Croydon? Making the unlikely possible once more
Plans to move the local studies and archive public desk into what ought to be the borough’s principal art gallery are condemned as the latest example of Croydon Council’s “cultural vandalism” by TIMOTHY GODFREY, the Town Hall shadow spokesman for … Continue reading
Taking the Miki for Ashcroft’s audience of just 50
BELLA BARTOCK has been out again, this time accompanied by a responsible child to see Miki at the Ashcroft Theatre The story of Inuit girl Miki, her friends Penguin and Polar Bear and Miki’s adventures below the sea ice as … Continue reading
Croydon needs to keep a proper grasp of its history
Norbury resident SEAN CREIGHTON expresses concern over Croydon’s proposed cuts to the local studies centre, as first reported by Inside Croydon Croydon Council plans to disengage from cultural intervention as part of the next phase of its spending cuts. This … Continue reading
Matthews Yard seeks public donations for expansion plans
Matthews Yard, the cafe and workspace off Surrey Street which has received significant support from the council and staged several events for the likes of Gavin Barwell MP and others in the Croydon Establishment, is now asking the public to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Cinema, Comedy, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Music, Surrey Street, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Croydon, David Lean Cinema, England, London, Matthews Yard, Saif Bonar, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
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Theatre is boarded up as developers consider demolition
The Warehouse Theatre stands boarded up this morning, any hope of its re-opening even more remote after the owners of the Ruskin Square (non-)development site, Stanhope and Schroders, in midweek exercised a break clause in the lease to take back … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Fairfield Halls, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Croydon, East Croydon station, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Schroders, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
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Installation that puts the guf into Ruskin Square
As you’ve stood on the platforms at East Croydon lately, have you wondered what the eclectic collection of random fixtures on the vacant site that was supposed to be “the gateway” to Croydon might be? There’s some explanation in this … Continue reading
Secret donor pledges to double Warehouse appeal fund
The fight to save the Warehouse Theatre goes on, with a secret benefactor generously pledging to match all donations to the campaign to save the venue. As revealed by Inside Croydon, the local council withdrew the theatre’s grant in April, … Continue reading
What’s in a name? For Croydon Council, about £3m
According to PIGGY ASHCROFT, our council wants to make a crisis out of a drama, with designs on the Warehouse Theatre‘s name and hard-won reputation as well as its multi-million pound endowment from developers Croydon Council wants to go into … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Art, Cinema, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema Campaign, East Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Jon Rouse, Property, Ruskin Square, Sara Bashford, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Warehouse, Warehouse Theatre
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Warehouse Theatre: Croydon Council does the dirty deed
We reproduce here some of the key pages from the deed, drawn up in March this year, which Croydon Council has presented to developers Stanhope, demonstrating the greedy grab for the £3 million grant that had been promised to provide … Continue reading
