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London's stages and concert rooms: the West End houses and the playhouses that make their own shows, the grand halls, the churches with a musical life, the jazz basements, the comedy clubs, the clubs proper, the rooms above pubs where things start, and the booth on Leicester Square that sells off what the West End has not. What is on is listed under each venue, and in What's On.
What is on at them this week is in What's On: Performance
A small Limehouse house that makes plays for people from birth to eighteen and tours them round the country.
PlayhousesFor childrenFringe & pubs
It has been working since 1972 and calls itself the leading small-scale young people's venue and touring company in Britain, which is a narrow enough claim to be checkable: very few buildings programme exclusively for the young and also send the work out, and Half Moon does both. Its touring arm, Half Moon Presents, takes productions to venues and schools with no theatre of their own.
The audience runs from birth to eighteen, and to twenty-five for young people with physical, sensory or cognitive disabilities. In practice that means a season of professional plays pitched at particular ages alongside eight youth theatres that meet in the building, so the same address puts on the work and makes the people who will put it on next.
The emphasis is on new writing, and on writing for audiences who rarely see themselves on a stage. Half Moon's archive - fifty years of it - went to Queen Mary University of London in 2025, which is the sort of thing that happens to a company whose back catalogue turns out to have been a record of east London.
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