Founded by Ashley Dukes as a new stage for plays by poets.
The plaque gives 1931 as the start date, but Wikipedia gives 1933. Possibly for those first 3 years it was a home for the Ballet Club and not yet a theatre.
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Mercury Theatre
Here stood the Mercury Theatre, 1931 - 1987, founded by author and playwright...
This verse play by TS Eliot concerning the murder of Becket, had its London p...
Founded by Margaret Walker after she worked with Joan Littlewood at the Theat...
