Greater London Theatre

London’s old County Hall, the Grade II-listed former home of the Greater London Council and the Saatchi Gallery, and site of the London Aquarium, is to become a three-theatre entertainment complex called the Greater London Theatre.

The plan is to turn the building into a cultural centre to rival other off-West End venues such as the Battersea Arts Centre in south London.

The three theatres will be

1) The old County Hall debating chamber as the main theatrical space. This has alaready been used once by the Factory Theatre Company earlier this year, for a production of Hamlet.

2) A black-box studio as being proposed by creative company Weird & Wonderful which already runs Movieum, an exhibition of film props, in the building.

3) The Riverside Terrace as a space for outdoor productions.

Marcus Campbell Sinclair, the projects’s joint artistic director, talking to The Guardian said the new venue will be multi-disciplinary:

It will work brilliantly as a bridge between fringe and West End theatre. We are creating in-house productions, and are also in talks with external companies who wish to come in and utilise the space. It will be a mixture of new writing, classical works and other performance theatre.