Almeida Theatre
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Founded in 1980, the Almeida Theatre has become one of the key theatres in London. For over two decades it has operated in Islington, a fashionable district in inner North London, staging its own productions of mainly high-brow plays, including Shakespeare, and acquiring an artistic reputation comparable to the leading theatres in central London.
The theatre was conceived by Lebanese-born, Oxford-educated Pierre Audi in 1978, when he acquired a derelict Salvation Army Hall in an unfashionable part of Islington in North London. In 1990, Ian McDiarmid and Jonathan Kent took over the artistic direction and the Almeida became a full-time theatre for the first time. It is a non-profit producing theatre whose productions regularly play to packed houses and frequently transfer to the West End. Director Michael Attenborough took over as head of the theatre in 2002.
Artistic Directors
Notable productions
- Ivanov, Platonov - Anton Chekhov
- Medea - Euripides
- Tartuffe - Molière
- The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill
- Betrayal, Moonlight - Harold Pinter
- The Deep Blue Sea - Terence Rattigan
- The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? - Edward Albee
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