Pleasure Gardens Theatre

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A view of the theatre in 1907 Pleasure Gardens Theatre Folkestone 1907.jpg
A view of the theatre in 1907

The Pleasure Gardens Theatre was a theatre in Folkestone in Kent. It was opened in 1886 in a building that had previously been constructed as an Exhibition Hall in 1851. It was later converted into a cinema before closing in 1964. [1]

In the interwar years several plays premiered there prior to West End runs including Dorothy Brandon's 1923 play The Outsider . [2] The following year Sutton Vane's Falling Leaves was first staged at Folkestone.

References

  1. "Theatres in Folkestone, Kent". www.arthurlloyd.co.uk.
  2. Wearing p.231

Bibliography

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