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Greenwich Playhouse

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A pub theatre, unusually situated in a station forecourt, immediately adjoining South East Rail and Docklands Light Railway entrance. The theatre is on the first floor of a rear annexe to the St Christopher’s Inn Hotel. The auditorium is a plain, skylit room with a dais at the entrance end, but seating is usually on three sides, rather than facing an end stage. There are two dressing rooms. No dedicated bar space, but easy access to the pub bars on the ground floor. A successful and popular producing house it suffers, as other pub theatres do, from uncertainty of tenure.


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  • Other names
    Prince Theatre
  • Events
    • 1995 Design/Construction: conversion of part of pub premises to theatre (architect unknown).
    • 1995 Owner/Management: Galleon Theatre Company, managers
  • Capacities
    • Current: usually 84
  • Listings
    • Grade Not listed

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