Park Theatre

Park Theatre

This Finsbury Park theatre offers an ever-changing line-up of new shows
  • Theatre | Fringe
  • Finsbury Park
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Time Out says

Park Theatre counts some of theatre's biggest names amongst its fans, not least Ian McKellen, who recently donated the proceeds of a week-long run of his solo show to the theatre's kitty. And these friends in high places, plus plenty of local donors, mean that it's a much more professional outfit than your average unfunded neighbourhood theatre.

It puts on around 20 new shows a year, in two spaces: main stage Park200 and smaller studio Park90. They're generally new writing, but of a slightly more staid variety than you'd get at the likes of Bush Theatre or Theatre503. Expect a mix of issue-led dramas, new comedies, and star vehicles for veteran British actors. Its biggest hit so far has been David Haig's 'Pressure', which landed a West End transfer in 2018.

Park Theatre is housed in a shiny modern building tucked away on a quiet street behind Finsbury Park station. It opened in 2013, under the auspices of artistic director Jez Bond, who oversaw the building's £2.6 million creation from an old office block which stood on the site. Park Theatre has two cafe/bar areas - a spacious one upstairs, and a more hectic one downstairs - and both are popular with both laptop-toting locals and theatre fans waiting to see a show.  

Details

Address
Clifton Terrace
London
N4 3JP
Transport:
Tube: Finsbury Park; Rail: Finsbury Park
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What’s on

The Gathered Leaves

A decade after Andrew Keatley’s play about an estranged family attempting to set things right premiered at the Park Theatre… here it is again, in an entiurely new production directed by Adrian Noble, but still at the Park Theatre. Set over the Easter weekend of 1997 on teh occasion of patriarch William’s seventy-fifth birthday, the revival stars Jonathan Hyde, Joanne Pearce, Richard Stirling, Chris Larkin, Zoë Waites, George Lorimer, Ella Dale, Olivia Vinall and Taneetrah Porter.
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Lee

New drama about Jackson Pollock’s widow Lee Krasner, an important figure in the abstract expressionist movement who partially sacrified her career to support her more famous husband. Cian Griffin’s play is set in 1969, 13 years after Pollock’s death, and is set in Krasner’s studio where she receives Hank, a young art student. He has a work of Pollock’s he wants her to authenticate – but his evasive answers force her to question what she thought she knew about her husband’s genius. Jason Moore directs.
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(the) Woman

In Jane Upton’s metatheatrical drama a successful female playwright succumbs to exhaustion and self doubt after becomig a mother. The play – directed by Angharad Jones – flits between playwrigt protagonist M and the plot of the play that she’s writing for her male producers. Lizzy Watts stars.
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