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David Garrick as Abel Drugger in Jonson's The Alchemist by Johann Zoffany (c. 1770). The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson.First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge believed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature.
Theatre Deli has become instrumental in the development of early career artists. In June 2017, Theatre Deli partnered with British Land, GIC and The Nursery Theatre to create a workspace for artists at Broadgate, London. [1] The company currently has its main site at the Ground floor and Mezzanine of 107 Leadenhall St in London, opened in 2022.
The Alchemist, HWV 43, is incidental music used for the revival of Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist at the Queen's Theatre, London on 14 January 1710. The work is an arrangement, by an anonymous composer, of music written by George Frideric Handel.
[3] In his Diary, Samuel Pepys, who admired Corey's talents, calls her "Doll Common" after her part in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. In her three decades on the stage, Corey played a wide range of roles; in revivals of plays from the period of English Renaissance theatre: Lady Would-be in Jonson's Volpone; Mrs. Otter in Epicene; Sempronia in Catiline
The Denmark Arms is a Grade II listed public house at 381 Barking Road, East Ham, London. [1] It was built in about 1890, and extended about 1900. [1] It was formerly named the Denmark Inn. [2] In the 1890s, local football club Old Castle Swifts would use the Denmark Inn to change for matches at Temple Meadows in Wakefield Street.
The Alchemist is a former pub at 225 St John's Hill, Battersea, London, that was controversially demolished in May 2015 after over 100 years in business, [1] and rebuilt in 2018. The pub was originally called The Fishmongers' Arms, [ 1 ] and was built in 1854.
The New was the second of the three theatres in St Martin's Lane.The Trafalgar Square (now the Duke of York's) opened in 1892 and the London Coliseum in 1904. The actor-manager Charles Wyndham, who had been based at the Criterion Theatre for more than twenty years, moved in 1899 to the larger Wyndham's Theatre which he commissioned in Charing Cross Road.
The theatre is now part of the Ambassador Theatre Group and has a weekly schedule of plays and musicals, alongside special music events and children's shows. Pre-West End productions can often be seen. There is a Christmas and New Year pantomime tradition and many of Britain's greatest music hall and pantomime performers have appeared there ...