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Company: Streatham Theatre Company
Email: info@streathamtheatre.org.uk
Telephone: +44 20 3432 5710
Website: www.streathamtheatre.org.uk
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Event Website: https://streathamtheatre.org.uk/event/jan-2025
Title: Tribute to the late Timothy West – Readings from his autobiography
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Summary: Readings from the late Timothy West's autobiography ‘A Moment Towards the End of the Play': An Autobiography.
Category: Book reading, Second Tuesday Event
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Start date:14 January 2025
End date:14 January 2025
Times: 7.30pm (Doors 7pm)
Admission: Members FREE, others £5, at the door
Description:
In a tribute to the late Timothy West, join us to celebrate one of the UK’s most loved actors by sharing readings from his autobiography ‘A Moment Towards the End of the Play’: An Autobiography.
Read your self or just listen to others.
Timothy West’s parents were the actors (Harry) Lockwood West and Olive Carleton-Crowe (born in Wandsworth), and he notes in his biography: “In those days the massive Stoll Theatre chain had Hippodromes, Empires and Lyceums all over outer London, and producing managements could tour a play for a week at Shepherd’s Bush, a week at Chiswick, a week at Streatham Hill and so on, knowing that audiences clung to their local theatre and there was no danger of trying to catch the same people in two different places. My father had secured a part in one such play, and had the luxury of being, for a whole six months, able to commute to every single theatre from Ealing, on his shining new Raleigh bicycle.”
And Timothy West himself appeared at Streatham Hill Theatre as Col. Gray-Balding in Simple Spymen in the week beginning 2nd October 1961.
Streatham Hill Theatre still exists but is at risk of loss – find out more about it and the campaign to save it at streathamhilltheatre.org
Venue: Vinters Studios http://www.vintersstudios.co.uk
Venue Address: 1b Sunnyhill Road, London SW16 2UG