Chelsea Players
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CP Theatre Productions is a London
-based theatre
. It is a registered charity and has been in continual existence since the 1960s. It was formerly known as Chelsea Players and was the resident company at the Chelsea Theatre on the Kings Road for 25 years until 2001.
The company produces up to six shows each year in London theatres including the Barons Court Theatre, Landor Theatre, The White Bear Theatre
, Old Red Lion Theatre
and Putney Arts Theatre. It has also staged work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2003, including the European premiere of Australian comedy Milo's Wake, written by Majery and Michael Ford and the London version was directed by Jane Hammond.
Their production of The Crucible
was produced by Phil Hammond and had lighting design by Hugh Allison.
London
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-based theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
. It is a registered charity and has been in continual existence since the 1960s. It was formerly known as Chelsea Players and was the resident company at the Chelsea Theatre on the Kings Road for 25 years until 2001.
The company produces up to six shows each year in London theatres including the Barons Court Theatre, Landor Theatre, The White Bear Theatre
The White Bear Theatre
The White Bear Theatre Club is a fringe theatre venue, established in 1988 in the White Bear pub in Kennington, London Borough of Lambeth. It is run by Artistic Director Michael Kingsbury...
, Old Red Lion Theatre
Old Red Lion Theatre
The Old Red Lion Theatre is a fringe theatre, situated above a pub at The Angel, in the London Borough of Islington.It was founded in 1948 as the Old Red Lion Theatre Club.-Construction:...
and Putney Arts Theatre. It has also staged work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2003, including the European premiere of Australian comedy Milo's Wake, written by Majery and Michael Ford and the London version was directed by Jane Hammond.
Their production of The Crucible
The Crucible
The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists...
was produced by Phil Hammond and had lighting design by Hugh Allison.