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Originally created by the team behind the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, the 503 is a well-designed theatre nestled above the busy Latchmere pub on Battersea Park Road. In 1982, the Gate Theatre expanded to include this custom-built studio theatre above The Latchmere Pub, on the south side of Battersea Bridge Road. Changing its name from the Grace Theatre to Theatre503 in 2002, it was relaunched as a home for new writing and hosted plays by the likes of Dennis Kelly, Phil Porter, Duncan Macmillan and Rachael Wagstaff. It went on to win the Peter Brook Empty Space Award, was nominated for a Time Out Live Award in 2006. More recently it pulled off "an extraordinary coup" (The Telegraph) with its production of The Mountaintop by Katori Hall which transferred to the West End where it won the Olivier Award for Best New play. The Broadway version stars Samuel L Jackson and Halle Berry. Regular comedy nights, fundraisers and free performances mix with the ambitious program of new work to make Theatre503 so much more significant than a fringe venue housed above a scruffy pub in Battersea.
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event > Theatre > Dramas
DATES 28th and 29th August 2014 at 7.45pm & 30th August 2014 at 3pm and 7.45pm
A production in which at the top of each show, the performers throw a deck of cards in the air. Each card has the title of a scene written on it, and the shape of the play is then determined by random chance as the cards are picked up throughout the story at regular intervals.
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Theatre 503 Marianne Oldham as Mimi in the Giudecca and Theatre503 production of MIMI AND THE STALKER. Photo by Logan Riehl
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231 Battersea Park Road, SW11 | 13 minutes from Theatre 503
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Unit 1 & 2 Yelverton Road, Battersea, SW11 | 9 minutes from Theatre 503
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London > Attractions > Attractions for Kids
Battersea Park, SW11 | 10 minutes from Theatre 503
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8 Grant Road, SW11 | 9 minutes from Theatre 503
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305-311 Lavender Hill, SW11 | 11 minutes from Theatre 503
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511 Battersea Park Road, SW11 | Same location as Theatre 503
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228 Battersea Bridge Road, SW11 | 1 minute from Theatre 503
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1 Hester Road, SW11 | 12 minutes from Theatre 503
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86 Fulham Road, South Kensington, London SW3 | 25 minutes from Theatre 503
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