Description

Date: 1925

Theatre: Barnes Theatre, London

Performance: Fatherhood

Main Performers: Antony Holles, Dorothy Peters, Esther Whitehouse, Edyth Goodall

A stiff, parchment-style programme presenting a new play by Harold Owen, Fatherhood.

The Barnes Theatre could be found by the River Thames in South-west London. In the early 1900s it was used as a cinema, until 1925, when Philip Ridgeway became the licensee and put on live plays. A brief tenure however, as the theatre closed in 1926, remaining closed until 1930 when it returned to being a cinema. In 1966 it became the Olympic Studio, a recording studio patronised by many top recording artists spanning 50+ years. Since 2013 it has been the Olympic Cinema, keeping just a small recording studio.