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  some information on the Cochrane Theatre
The Cochrane Theatre is a proscenium arch theatre in the centre of London with an audience capacity of 314 which was built in 1963 by London County Council, who were persuaded by Jeannetta Cochrane of the need for a Theatre for use by Theatre Design students at Central School of Art.
In the last 18 months The Cochrane has seen its audience figures rise by 50% together with increasing critical success as Time Out's critic choice for Swollen Tongues and Guardian four star reviews for Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.
CTC is a receiving house which aims to present all aspects of the performing arts within a proscenium arch.
www.arts.ac.uk /infinite/english/play/popplaytheatre.php   (261 words)

  
 Cochrane Theatre, Holborn - London - UK Attraction
The Cochrane Theatre opened in 1964, and is named after Jeannetta Cochrane, who founded the theatre.
The theatre was built onto the Central School of Arts and Crafts, and is now owned by the University of the Arts London.
The theatre is used as a tool for MA students, and shows productions from students graduating in theatre design for performance, scenography and drama.
www.ukattraction.com /london/cochrane-theatre.htm   (186 words)

  
 Cochrane Times, Cochrane, AB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The small theatre, located an hour and a half east of Cochrane, is currently running the play Village of Idiots where Sine has taken on the lead role of Yosef.
Sine has been committed to his work in the theatre since a young age, and according to his mother Brenda Sine, he has been interested in acting for as long as she can remember.
Although it wasn’t his first choice in theatre schools, Sine was able to become part of an acting guild, which sparked his career on stages such as Calgary’s StoryBook Theatre.
www.cochranetimes.com /story.php?id=172268   (701 words)

  
 - Ballet Black, Cochrane Theatre, London, 21 February 2004.
Flying in overnight from the United States is not the ideal preparation for a positive experience in a dark, warm theatre watching the same programme one has seen before, and recently at that.
They have returned to London’s midtown Cochrane Theatre, as Director Cassa Pancho told me, “due to popular demand”, though she also said she was nervous about whether the audiences would really back up the theatre’s convictions.
She needed to have no such worries as the sizeable crowd on the opening night were at least as enthusiastic as they were during the first run in October last year.
www.ballet.co.uk /dcforum/happening/4170.html   (766 words)

  
 londondance.com : Studio Theatre
The theatre continues to be used by the school, yet Studio Theatre is also a fully licensed, small-scale public theatre that programmes a wide range of performance arts.
Studio Theatre is an ideal venue to hire for performances, to run educational programmes and projects, for rehearsals, and to present debates and presentations.
Studio Theatre is wheelchair accessible with off-street parking available for disabled badge holders only (please call in advance on 020 7641 8424).
www.londondance.com /content.asp?CategoryID=683   (432 words)

  
 The First Rung Theatre Company - about us
Most of those who have reached the pinnacle of their profession admit that the way to the top is strewn with heartbreak and disappointment and that their success owed much to good luck.
The driving force of the First Rung Theatre Company is Jacqueline Nichols, who was trained at the Rose Bruford School in Sidcup and has since devoted her energies to encouraging and nurturing talent in younger people.
Your sponsorship could be acknowledged in the theatre programme, and in advance publicity, or otherwise in an appropriate way of your choice.
www.firstrungtheatre.com /about.html   (1674 words)

  
  Alun Cochrane, Soho Theatre | Official London Theatre Guide
Lorenz Auditorium: 4 spaces for wheelchair users in front row of main auditorium which is accessed through entrance on level 1.
Theatre can accommodate 3 wheelchair and 1 scooter transferee.
Theatre may not be suitable for some scooters – please ask when booking.
www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk /shows/display?contentId=87388   (551 words)

  
 About Us / Find Us
The Cochrane Theatre is a receiving and producing house that aims to present all aspects of the performing arts within a proscenium arch.
The theatre opened in 1964 and was named after its founder Jeannetta Cochrane who was a theatre practitioner specialising in costume and scenery design.
The Cochrane Theatre produces work with graduating students of BA (Hons) Design for Performance, MA Scenography and Drama Centre London.
www.cochranetheatre.co.uk /12979.htm   (130 words)

  
 Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, Level 3
Theatre programme advertising a play to be produced at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre by the National Youth Theatre entitled ZIGGER ZAGGER.
Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, London, England
Theatre programme advertising a series of plays to be produced the Jeanetta Cochrane theatre by the School of Performing Arts from California.
library.kent.ac.uk /library/special/icons/playbills/JCOCHRNE.HTM   (89 words)

  
 The First Rung Theatre Company - Press
In an entertainment world that seems to be filled with overnight success stories it can be hard for those who have recently finished their education when they find that they do not have a place in the business for which they have been trained.
So she became a teacher because "that was what nice girls did, it was safe and secure" and over time in the education and theatre professions she has seen both the good and bad sides of training to enter the industry.
First Rung's first production was The Beggar's Opera at the Cochrane Theatre in August 2000 and it staged William Wycherley's The Counrt Wife at the Cockpit Theatre late last year.
www.firstrungtheatre.com /press.html   (1020 words)

  
 Ballet-Dance Magazine - Ballet Black - Cochrane Theatre, London
In her program note, Pancho mentions Arthur Mitchell and Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) as an example of an “all-fl ballet company” and states there is no equivalent in the UK.
Britain will not have a Dance Theatre of Harlem because the context, the time, and the people are not the same.
Jeremiah Tatum whose Alvin Ailey flamboyance and Dance Theatre of Harlem School technical prowess are testimony of American dance training institutions.
www.ballet-dance.com /200403/articles/BalletBlack20040221.htm   (1594 words)

  
 List of London venues - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a partial list of entertainment venues in London.
The majority of London's "theatreland" theatres are around Shaftesbury Avenue, The Strand and nearby streets in the West End.
Globe Theatre (the outdoor theatre on the South Bank)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_London_venues   (130 words)

  
 londondance.com : Linbury Studio Theatre
The Linbury Studio Theatre is one of the recent additions to the Royal Opera House and it has brought a new, flexible and intimate performing space in the West End.
The theatre offers a diversity of work where education projects and community events run along side Handel’s Baroque opera Alceste, Michael Berkeley’s new opera Jane Eyre, contemporary dance programmes, and a free recital series.
The construction of the new Linbury Studio Theatre has enabled the inclusion of a programme of free lunch-time concerts and provided an ideal space for community and education events for professionals, students and the public.
www.londondance.com /content.asp?CategoryID=103   (145 words)

  
 Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre LEVEL 3, Level 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The theatre, which seats 315, is part of the Central St Martin's College of Art and Design, previously the Central School of Art.
In 1985 a fl theatre company, Talawa, was established at the theatre.
The theatre was refurbished in the 1990's and became a 'home for fl theatre'.
library.kent.ac.uk /library/special/icons/playbills/3JCOCHR.HTM   (118 words)

  
 The British Theatre Guide : Reviews - The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman
The Tricycle Theatre did a good line in recreating court trials.
While this makes for good Theatre, much of the imagination that a good playwright can bring to an audience is lost if all he or she is able to do is use the words of others.
Apparently it was, although it is still terrifying to hear of similar acts of intolerance being perpetrated and condoned there to this day.
www.britishtheatreguide.info /reviews/laramieproject-rev.htm   (360 words)

  
 A bigger and a better life - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
The Westminster Theatre, located in a very accessible part of London near Victoria Station and, in the past considered as 'West End', became part of a redevelopment project designed to produce yet more office space and commercial accommodation.
It also managed to swing a three-year residence in the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, a modest-sized house on the outskirts of the 'West End' which is attached to London University's visual arts school.
It was quite an occasion when the refurbished Cochrane opened with Brewster's production of The Road in the presence of Soyinka who had flown in for the occasion and the then current UK minister of the arts together with a hearty handful of political and social dignitaries.
www.jamaicaobserver.com /lifestyle/html/20050910T230000-0500_88046_OBS_A_BIGGER_AND_A_BETTER_LIFE_.asp   (1415 words)

  
 Julie McNamara - Performance
She went on to work with The National Student Theatre Company (NSTC) alongside John Godber and Stephen Jeffries and was a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
By 1987 she was working for Banner Theatre, a socialist company focusing on topical political issues.She left theatre to go it alone.
Julie was commissioned in 2002 by Jackson's Lane Theatre and Oval House Theatre to create a piece for the Xposure London Festival of Disability Arts.
www.juliemc.com /performance.html   (458 words)

  
 'Biyi Bandele, playwright - author of 'Oroonoko' and other plays published by Amber Lane Press
He was the Arts Council Resident Dramatist with the Talawa Theatre Company at the Cochrane Theatre, London from 1993-94, and a Writer-in-Residence at the Royal National Theatre studio in 1995.
Marching for Fausa was premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1993 and deals with political corruption in the Federal Republic of Songhai, a fictional country on the west coast of Africa.
A young journalist and photographer, Telani Balarabe, is investigating the disappearance of a group of schoolchildren, arrested by the State Security Service during a public demonstration.
members.aol.com /amberlanepress/bandele_biyi.htm   (1008 words)

  
 New Faces :: Nov2001
Stacy S. Kearney is an Assistant Professor of Theatre in the Department of Performing Arts, where she teaches Lighting Design and Theatre Appreciation.
Stacy received her Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Design with an emphasis in Lighting Design and her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Design and Technology from Western Michigan University.
She has two daughters, one a Peace Corps volunteer in South Africa who is working with elementary school teachers to help them implement innovative teaching strategies and another, a junior at UNC Chapel Hill majoring in public relations, who sings for the UNC Gospel Choir.
www.clemson.edu /caah/voices/htm/archives/1nov01/new_faces/new_faces.htm   (620 words)

  
 Cochrane Theatre Classes - Lone Wolf Theatre Company Storytellers Calgary Actor Public Speaking Acting & Storytelling ...
Lone Wolf Theatre Company hosts the monthly Trader Tuesday series at Cochrane Coffee Traders, the LiveStories Programme™, ongoing classes in Storytelling and Acting, and private coaching and training for anyone finding themselves with a public speaking opportunity.
Lone Wolf Theatre Company is Cochrane’s only professional theatre company, and the only company in the greater Calgary area providing professionally directed classes in Acting and Storytelling.
Residents finally have the opportunity to experience professional theatre without having to leave Cochrane.
www.lonewolftheatre.com   (379 words)

  
 Future Events from the International Workshop Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A riveting revisiting of Music Hall Variety, providing a tantalising exposé of drag, erotic, comedic, aerial and raconteur specialty acts, Cochrane Confidential is an evening of irreverence and irrelevance.
This collaboration between the International Workshop Festival, QSF and the Cochrane Theatre aims to provide a menagerie of the wildest spectacle of new, existing and never-performed-before acts.
Tapping into the great British tradition of musical variety, each act is nurtured and supported by the devising team of The International Workshop Festival, QSF and The Cochrane Theatre, using their extensive and incomparable knowledge in the field of supporting new and existing artists, both technically and artistically.
www.workshopfestival.co.uk /future.php   (224 words)

  
 Horla's production of 'Just Desserts' Festival of Theatre
George Roman was Artistic Director of Theatr Clywd for its first then years, and for a further five years the Artistic Director of the Exeter Northcott Theatre.
He directed over 120 plays for the theatre, and was made Judith E Wilson Fellow at Cambridge University 'for the innovative production of classics'.
Her most recent credits include: Me and Billy Joe McAllister (Lion and Unicorn and Rose and Crown), Anything Else Is Fantasy (site specific puppetry) Twisters (Cochrane Theatre and The Roundhouse), an adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters and Greek by Steven Berkoff (Landor Theatre and Riverside Studios, assistant director).
www.horla.co.uk /frames_site/productions/just_desserts/directors.htm   (715 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Star-Spangled Banner
Admiral Alexander Cochrane, the British naval commander, prepared to attack U.S. coastal areas, and General Robert Ross sought to capture towns along the East Coast to create diversions while British army forces attacked along the northern boundaries of the United States.
At 7:30 on the morning of September 14, Admiral Cochrane called an end to the bombardment, and the British fleet withdrew.
The first documented public performance of the words and music together took place at the Holliday Street Theatre in Baltimore on October 19, 1814.
www.si.edu /resource/faq/nmah/starflag.htm   (2914 words)

  
 Bicycle Film Festival Rolls into London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
LONDON, UK—After five successful years in New York and San Francisco, the Bicycle Film Festival is converging on London’s Cochrane Theatre, September 2nd and 3rd.
The Cochrane Theatre is located at Southampton Row, London, W1.
Tickets can be purchased from the Cochrane Theatre box office Mon-Fri 10am-6pm and Sat.
www.lcc.org.uk /index.asp?PageID=944   (154 words)

  
 Cochrane Theatre: Incident
Katherine is forced to risk her hopes, her job, herself to discover the truth.
Polymath is a new company bringing together artists from the National Theatre, Peter Hall Company and international touring.
Polymath fuses the power of new writing with the inventiveness of improvised theatre.
www.arts.ac.uk /events/12918.htm   (144 words)

  
 BLTS - Colin Billing
Colin Billing co-founded Big Little Theatre School with Michelle Guy in 1996 and has been Music Supervisor ever since.
He is a regular member of staff at the London School Of Musical Theatre, and has also worked with students at the London Studio Centre and the Musical Theatre course at the Royal Academy of Music.
In November he goes to Leicester to musically direct the Haymarket Theatre production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe directed by Paul Kerryson.
www.biglittletheatreschool.co.uk /biog_colin.htm   (208 words)

  
 Mount Allison University Libraries
Theatre and Drama - pointers to resources in more than 40 countries, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students.
Weiss, P. "The material and the Model: Notes toward a Definition of Documentary Theatre," Theatre Quarterly Vol.
The Laramie Project, Cochrane Theatre, London, reviewed by Shirley Dent for Culture Wars, the Reviews website of the Institute of Ideas.
www.mta.ca /library/subject_drama.html   (1061 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Stratford Festival Theatre is a thrust stage in a two level amphitheatre.
The Theatre Royal is a typical Victorian proscenium arch theatre with four levels of audience.
This uses the model for the Cottesloe theatre.
www.openstages.com /examples.htm   (383 words)

  
 Conference 2006
The Rolling Stones called Invercargill, a small town on the very bottom of the South Island of New Zealand, the ar*se hole of the world.
I ventured there for the 46th Annual General Meeting of Music Theatre New Zealand held in late March.
But Music Theatre New Zealand's conference dinner made up for this.
www.musical.org.nz /conferences/conference_2006.htm   (712 words)

  
 Cochrane Theatre Bar London - Pub & Bar Review and Information, , 48 Southampton Row
The Cochrane Theatre serves drinks and nibbles at intervals during performances.
The drinks at the Cochrane Theatre Bar are pretty reasonably priced.
I've only been to the Cochrane Theatre a couple of times but have always ended up in the bar.
www.viewlondon.co.uk /info_pubbar_5519.html   (98 words)

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