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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
Fifty seats and a string-marionette stage in the hold of a 1930s Thames barge, moored at Little Venice for most of the year.
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Gren Middleton and Juliet Rogers formed Movingstage Marionettes in 1979, toured for two years, and then bought an eighty-foot Thames lighter - a riveted iron barge built in the 1930s to carry cargo between ships and the wharves - and cut a double-bridge marionette stage into it. It opened to the public at Camden Lock on 28 January 1982 with The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which tells you most of what you need to know about the company's idea of a children's theatre.
It is the only floating puppet theatre in Britain, and it holds fifty people. The stage was cut for string marionettes, worked from a bridge above it - a technique almost nobody performs publicly any more - and the season also takes in rod and glove puppet shows from visiting companies. Either way the audience sits close enough to watch the mechanism and stop noticing it. The repertoire takes in folk tales for three-to-tens and, in the evenings, work aimed at adults and older children.
It moved to the basin at Little Venice in 1988 and has been there since, playing from October to June. Every summer it casts off and moors at Richmond instead, which means the same theatre is at two ends of the river depending on the month.
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