The Theatre Royal Stratford East is a theatre in Stratford, London, which opened in 1884. It is home of the Theatre Workshop company. Theatre is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts. ... This article is about an area of London. ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... Theatre Workshop is a theatre group most notable for their devised pieces that included Oh, what a lovely war, and their leader, Joan Littlewood. ...
THE Borough Theatre, Stratford, was erected in 1896 for Albert Fredericks from the designs of the architect, Frank Matcham, and was known at first as "The Borough Theatre and Opera House," Stratford.
Stratford has been immortalised by, Chaucer, in the prologue to the "Canterbury Tales," in words which imply that in his time it was a well-known place of education for young ladies.
The theatre was opened on August 31st, 1896, and for this occasion Sir Herbert Tree and his company from the Haymarket Theatre were specially engaged.
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