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Gate Theatre Studio

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who made her first professional appearance at the Gate, restored intimate revue to favour in the West End. However following serious bomb damage in 1941, the same air raid that destroyed the
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and could hold an audience of 96. Then known as "the Gate Theatre Salon" (The Gate to Better Things), it opened that year on 30 October with Godfrey's production of
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and urged readers to apply for membership of the theatre and go and see the production. At the end of a scheduled three-week run, the play was transferred to the
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Charlotte Purkis 'Velona Pilcher's Promotion of an Intercontinental Theatrical Avant-Garde', in: Nitz, Petrulionis and Schoen (Eds.) (2016)
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By 1934, Godfrey, a man grown tired of shouldering the administrative burden of a theatre, handed it over to a new company formed by
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In March 1927 the Gate Theatre Salon closed and the company moved to a site at 16A Villiers Street,'underneath the arches' close to
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In the 1930s The Gate Theatre Studio was one of a number of small, committed, independent theatre companies which included the
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and his wife Molly Veness, the theatre was originally on the top floor of a ramshackle warehouse at 38 Floral Street,
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Productions, several of which transferred to the West End following censorship troubles with the
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Purkis, Charlotte (2021), Pilný, Ondřej; van den Beuken, Ruud; Walsh, Ian R. (eds.),
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Intercontinental Crosscurrents: Women's Networks Across Europe and the Americas
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The spirit of the Gate Theatre Studio was taken up in 1979 by the new
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in the lead, again produced by Godfrey and receiving 53 performances.
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Former buildings and structures in the City of Westminster
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Cultural Convergence: The Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928–1960
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With a series of challenging productions, including
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Villiers Street
London
WC2
Coordinates
51°30′29″N 0°07′26″W / 51.5081°N 0.1238°W / 51.5081; -0.1238
London Underground
Charing Cross
Embankment
National Rail
Charing Cross
Studio theatre
Villiers Street
Peter Godfrey
Covent Garden
Susan Glaspell
August Strindberg
The Dance of Death
Sunday Times
James Agate
Georg Kaiser
From Morn to Midnight
Regent Theatre
King's Cross
Claude Rains
Charing Cross Station
Carlo Gatti
Gatti's Underneath the Arches Musical Hall
Players' Theatre
Rudolph Steiner Theatre
Simon Gantillon

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