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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 200-seat house built for a company that has been training south London performers since 1986.
PlayhousesFor children
Teresa Early started it in 1986 as New Peckham Varieties, on the grounds that there was nothing for the children round there and somebody had to do something. The early programme was original shows for young audiences, several of them made with picture-book authors including Janet and Allan Ahlberg and Michael Foreman. It moved in 1992 to a hall behind the old town hall on Havil Street, and has stayed on that site since.
The present building is a purpose-built 200-seat theatre with studios attached, put up for £2.4 million. It runs as a producing house and a school at the same time: the academy takes three- to sixteen-year-olds on Saturdays and after school, and Young Peckham carries on with seventeen- to twenty-nine-year-olds, which means the pipeline runs from primary school to a professional career without leaving the postcode.
What comes out of it is a season of plays and the academy's own productions, all of it made for and largely by the people who live around it. The address is on the Camberwell side of Peckham.
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