Maddermarket Theatre

The theatre was originally built as a Roman Catholic chapel in the late 18th century by priests living in a tenement at Strangers' Hall. In the nineteenth century it had been used as a baking soda factory, a grocery warehouse, and as a hall for the Salvation Army. It was small, the main body of the building measuring only forty by forty-six feet. However, a vaulted ceiling gave it excellent acoustics; more importantly, it already had galleries on three sides. The building was quickly converted by the Guild of Norwich Players from a state of near-dereliction into an Elizabethan style playhouse. Nugent Monck, the founder of the Guild of Norwich Players used to say it was a half scale model of…

The Maddermarket Theatre is still staging performances today. In 2020 author Paula Meir became Chair of The Maddermarket Theatre.