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This intimate theatre was built on the site of the old Albion Tavern, and opened in November 1924. The beginnings of the Fortune Theatre were anything but fortunate. The opening play, %u2018Sinners%u2019 by Laurence Cowen, closed after two weeks. Over the next few decades, the Fortune Theatre had to resort to showing amateur plays and during World War II the venue was used by ENSA, the concert party corps of the Forces. But in the 1960s the theatre%u2019s fortunes began to change. Beyond the Fringe (1961) was shown at the Fortune Theatre, and it was a massive success, launching the careers of Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett. Its other blockbuster hit has been Stephen Mallatratt%u2019s The Woman in Black (1989), which has been performed (over 5000 times) at the theatre ever since.
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Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen NovelAustentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen NovelFollowing a smash-hit season earlier this year and another sold-out visit to the Edinburgh Fringe, Austentatious: The Improvised Jane Austen Novel returns to the West End. If you're new to the concept, it's entirely improvised and the performers act out a 'lost' Jane Austen novel based on a title suggested by the audience. At these special performa2020-06-01T19:30:00+01002020-07-27T00:00:00+0100
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event > Comedy > Improv
PRICING £20-£45
DATES 24th February to 27th July 2020
Following a smash-hit season earlier this year and another sold-out visit to the Edinburgh Fringe, Austentatious: The Improvised Jane Austen Novel returns to the West End. If you're new to the concept, it's entirely improvised and the performers act out a 'lost' Jane Austen novel based on a title suggested by the audience. At these special performa... More about this event
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45 Wellington Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E | 1 minute from Fortune Theatre
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38 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E | 2 minutes from Fortune Theatre
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42 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E | 2 minutes from Fortune Theatre
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22 Aldwych, Covent Garden, London WC2B | 1 minute from Fortune Theatre
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