Hampstead Theatre
RIBA Award 2003 | |
Type | Flexible stage and seating |
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Capacity | Main House Configuration: End On 374 Thrust 370 Traverse 383 Hampstead Downstairs: 90 |
Construction | |
Opened | 2003 |
Years active | Since 1959 | (various locations)
Architect | Bennetts Associates |
Website | |
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Hampstead Theatre is a theatre in South Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden. It specialises in commissioning and producing new writing, supporting and developing the work of new writers.
History
The original theatre (The Hampstead Theatre Club) was created in 1959 in Moreland Hall, a parish church school hall in Holly Bush Vale,
In 1962 the company moved to a portable cabin in Swiss Cottage where it remained for nearly 40 years, before, in 2003, the new purpose-built Hampstead Theatre opened in Swiss Cottage. The main auditorium seats 373 people. The studio theatre, Hampstead Downstairs, seats up to 100 people and was turned into a laboratory for new writing in 2010.[2]
In 2022 Arts Council England removed the theatre's public funding.[3]
Artistic directors
- James Roose-Evans (1959–1971)
- Vivian Matalon (1971–1973)
- Michael Rudman (1973–1978)
- David Aukin (1978–1984)
- Michael Attenborough (1984–1988)
- Jenny Topper (1988–2003)
- Anthony Clark (2003–2010)
- Edward Hall (2010–2019)
- Roxana Silbert (2019–2022)
Playwrights
Playwrights who have had their early work produced at the theatre include:
- Mike Bartlett
- Alistair Beaton
- Simon Block
- Al Blyth
- Jeremy Brock
- Michael Frayn
- Brian Friel
- Rebecca Gilman
- Daniel Hill
- Terry Johnson
- Dennis Kelly
- Hanif Kureishi
- Mike Leigh
- Abi Morgan
- Tom Morton-Smith
- Rona Munro
- Harold Pinter
- Nina Raine
- Philip Ridley
- Saman Shad
- Martin Sherman
- Shelagh Stephenson
- Hugh Whitemore
- Crispin Whittell
- Roy Williams
References
- ISBN 978-0-7524-7234-8.
- ^ "Theatre Tickets, News & Guides". Official London Theatre.
- ^ Hampstead Theatre (7 December 2022). "Hampstead Theatre suffers a 100% cut in Arts Council Funding".
External links
- Official website
- Media related to Hampstead Theatre at Wikimedia Commons