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Polka Theatre

  • Theatre
  • Wimbledon
Polka Theatre, 2021
Photo by Hufton+Crow
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Time Out says

This exceptional young person’s theatre has earned its place in generations of young hearts since it launched in 1979. The Wimbledon theatre stages in-house productions, workshops and storytelling sessions for families and schools – look out for literature events featuring children’s authors such as Jacqueline Wilson. An £8.5m revamp – which handily coincided with the coronavirus pandemic – has vastly upgraded it, with many more facilities including a sensory play area added when it reopened in 2021.

Details

Address:
240 The Broadway
London
SW19 1SB
Transport:
Tube: South Wimbledon
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What’s on

Tidy

  • Children's

Polka’s big new start-of-year show is a co-production with Theatre Iolo, whose artistic director Lee Lyford directs and adapts Emily Gravett’s droll picture book about a badger who becomes so obsessed with tidying up that he ends up bulldozing and concreting over his woodland home. It’s designed by Rachael Canning, with music and lyrics by Lucy Rivers. Ages three-to-seven.

Romeo and Juliet

  • Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy is having a busy spring, with one kids’ version at the Globe, the full-blown Tom Holland version in the West End, and this, a children’s version from Beats & Elements – aka Conrad Murray and Lakeisha Lynch-Stevens of the BAC Beatbox Academy – who’ll retell the story of the starcross’d lovers in a short version based on ‘rap, rhymes and beautiful harmonies’. For ages nine to 12-plus. 

Three Billy Goats Gruff

  • Children's

Three hungry goats face off against one grumpy troll in this stage version of the beloved fable from Hiccup Theatre. Ages 3-7.

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