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Omnibus Theatre

Clapham's first open-shelf library, where you could pick a book off the shelf yourself, now a hundred-and-ten-seat theatre.

PlayhousesFringe & pubsWorth it for the building

The building went up as the first open-shelf library in Clapham - a real distinction at the time, when a reader normally asked at a counter and waited while somebody fetched the book. It stopped being a library and became a theatre in 2013, and the main room holds a hundred and ten people with a studio upstairs for seventy-five.

The programme is classics reimagined, twentieth-century revivals and new plays, with a standing commitment to work by and about people who do not usually get a stage, and a long run of LGBTQ+ productions. It sits at the top of Clapham Common, which makes it one of the few theatres in London you would walk to across a park.

Where
1 Clapham Common North Side, SW4 0QW
Nearest station
Clapham Common · 5 min walk

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