Theatres · London
White Bear Theatre Pub
White Bear Theatre Pub is a theatre in the United Kingdom.

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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 2 h–3 h
- Nearest railway station
- Kennington · 0.2 km
- Wheelchair accessible
About
White Bear Theatre Pub is a working theatre in the United Kingdom, listed in OpenStreetMap as a public performance venue. Coordinates: 51.4868°, -0.1079°.
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Heritage listing
The White Bear Theatre is a fringe theatre founded in 1988 at the White Bear pub in Kennington, London, and run by artistic director and founder Michael Kingsbury. It is one of London's leading pub theatres, as well as one of the longest established, dedicated since inception to both new writing and to its Lost Classics Project, which focuses on productions of obscure historical works.
From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
The White Bear Theatre is a fringe theatre founded in 1988 at the White Bear pub in Kennington, London, and run by artistic director and founder Michael Kingsbury. It is one of London's leading pub theatres, as well as one of the longest established, dedicated since inception to both new writing and to its Lost Classics Project, which focuses on productions of obscure historical works.
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Background
Description
Alongside the theatre's new writing output, the long-running Lost Classics Project focuses on the production of obscure, underperformed or unperformed plays from previous generations. In the modern history strand this has included the first uncensored productions of two of John Osborne's supposedly lost early plays (Personal Enemy and The Devil Inside Him), J.P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man, together with a successful revival of Sylvia Rayman's long-unperformed all-female play Women of Twilight. The project's historical strand has been praised by academics for featuring "an extensive range of non-Shakespearean plays" and for seeking to "extend the repertory beyond the select group of…
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- Coordinates
- 51.4868, -0.1079
- District
- Lambeth
- Parish
- Lambeth, unparished area
- Postcode
- SE11 4DJ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green
- Established
- 1988
- Nearest railway station
- Kennington — 0.2 km
- Official site
- www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk
Sources
- osm: n295709722 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: White Bear Theatre (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: The White Bear Public House (cropped).jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is White Bear Theatre Pub?
- White Bear Theatre Pub is in London, United Kingdom (postcode SE11 4DJ), in the parish of Lambeth, unparished area.
- When was White Bear Theatre Pub built?
- Built or established in 1988.
- Who owns White Bear Theatre Pub?
- White Bear Theatre Pub is owned by |capacity = 50.
- Is White Bear Theatre Pub a listed building?
- White Bear Theatre Pub is officially recognised as Grade II listed building listed.
- How do I get to White Bear Theatre Pub?
- The nearest railway station is Kennington, about 0.2 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode SE11 4DJ.