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Spectator Out Loud: Mary Wakefield, Lloyd Evans, Tanya Gold

Best of the Spectator

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Pub Theatres - A New Way to Liven Up Your Lives

Some up market theatres have converted their rehearsal rooms into small, black box spaces because they want to replicate the special pub theatre vibe. Low ceilings and cramped seating generate a particular energy and excitement. A venu with just 50 seats will feel almost full with only 25 people in attendance. If forty punters turn up, the place appears to be rammed. The range of genres at a pub theatre is far broader than the fair offered elsewhere. It's impossible to imagine the old vick welcoming such a rag bag of populous entertainment through its doors. In the nineteenth century, the old vic was a music hall that gladly provided low, prou frivolity for the mass market. Too many theat

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