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Riverside Studios

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  • Hammersmith
Riverside Studios
Photograph: Courtesy of Borkowski PRRiverside Studios
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Time Out says

Riverside Studios has had a long stint in hibernation; it closed in 2014, for a five year long period of redevelopment. But now, the Hammersmith arts hub is springing back into action with a spruce venue that includes two cinemas, a restaurant, theatre and TV studio spaces, and a new walkway that lets visitors make the most of the Thames-side location.

The Riverside Studios has had a long and enterprising history. Starting life as an industrial building in the 1800s, it was bought by the Triumph Film Company in 1933, serving as a film studio until 1954 when the BBC moved in and made Riverside its television station hub. ‘Top of The Pops’ and ‘Dr Who’ were famously filmed here, together with ‘Hancock’s Half Hour’ and ‘Playschool’. It wasn’t until 1975 that Riverside Studios received council funding to become a community arts centre and, with playwright Peter Gill at the helm, it launched as a new home for the performing arts. Since then, Riverside has evolved and grown providing visitors with an often ambitious theatre, art, cinema and education programme.

Details

Address:
Crisp Rd
London
W6 9RL
Transport:
Tube: Hammersmith
Opening hours:
Daily noon-9pm
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This is Memorial Device

  • Drama

A hit at the Edinburgh Fringe a couple of years back, ‘This Is Memorial Device’ is Graham Eatough’s adaptation of David Keenan’s hallucinatory ‘oral history’ of the fictitious Airdrie post-punk band Memorial Device. Also directed by Eatough, it stars Paul Higgins (‘The Thick of It’, ‘Line of Duty’) and features original music by Stephen McRobbie from The Pastels.

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