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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
The largest children's theatre in the country, purpose-built behind Tooley Street, with nothing on either stage for anyone over thirteen.
PlayhousesFor childrenWorth it for the building
Caryl Jenner started it in November 1949 as Mobile Theatre Ltd, a company that drove to schools and village halls because there was nowhere else to play to children. It toured Britain for eighteen years, stopped in 1967 when the Arts Council began funding it, and spent the next thirty-eight years as a resident company in somebody else's building - the Arts Theatre, off Leicester Square, where it played to children in a house designed for adults.
The building on Tooley Street, which opened in 2005 to a design by Keith Williams and won a RIBA award, was the first the company ever had, and the first stage anywhere built for the audience it plays to. It holds two theatres: the Weston, seating about 290, and the Clore studio at about 100.
Around 65,000 children and families a year come through it, which makes it the biggest operation of its kind in Britain. The programme runs to about thirteen and no further, and splits between new commissions and adaptations, with every production carrying a printed age range of two or three years - a show is made for six-to-elevens or for one-to-fours, and the Unicorn does not pretend one piece will do for both.
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