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Or track Gallery Road, London SE21 7AD Classics in the Courtyard adventure as the scheming him down in one of the Museum’s dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk Hush Mayfair Rumpelstiltskin blackmails the would- heritage vehicles for a ‘Super Santa From modern cult classics, The Greatest be princess into retrieving the coveted Selfie’, and enjoy storytelling sessions February 11 Showman and Mean Girls, to holiday Golden Eggs from the top of The and create special bunting to take Little feet: empire adventure favourites Elf and Love Actually, the Beanstalk. She must recover her glass home. 020 7379 6344 British Museum Hush courtyard will come alive every slipper, but Prince Charming, the Fairy Covent Garden Piazza, London Visit the great empire of King Sunday in November and December. Godmother and Jack’s pregnant cow WC2E 7BB Ashurbanipal. 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Whilst there was an obvious encroachment of the modern over the 93 years that LADY Fittingly for a theatre, Notting the Coronet served as a cinema/Hugh Grant date facilitator, an amazing Hill’s The Coronet has had amount has survived. The old royal boxes (King Edward VII was a frequent three distinct acts over its 120 attendee) are sealed off but overflow year lifespan. In its present with ancient props; behind the bar lurks form the Coronet is a dark an impressive tangle of a Victorian FROM heating system that looks like it has been jewel on Notting Hill Gate, transplanted straight out of one of David Lynch’s more surreal imaginings. If the its long corridors festooned membrane between past and present with evocative objets d’art and is unusually thin, that’s as much to do with how vital and forward looking the replete with one-of-a-kind Coronet’s programme and culture has THE theatre bar that fairly drips become in the 21st century. When the Coronet’s cinematic days with the kind of atmosphere finally came to an end in 2014 it had that a Shoreditch watering seen its capacity drop dramatically to 399 in order to provide the kind of leg room hole would cheerfully slit which would have been unimaginable to throats for. W.G.R. Sprague. There had been several SEA attempts to purchase and redevelop the hilst the Coronet is perhaps building over the centuries, but each time best known as the cinema the community had come together to frequented by Hugh Grant block such plans. These fears were well BY HENRIK IBSEN inW Notting Hill, when it first opened and truly put to rest when the building its doors in 1898 it was as a theatre. was returned to its original status by The in a new version by Mari Vatne Kjeldstadli Constructed during the last gasp of Print Room and artistic director Anda based on the translation by May-Brit Akerholt the Victorian era by a certain W.G.R. Winters. Embarking on an ambitious directed by Marit Moum Aune Sprague, architect of many classic programme of challenging and often West End Theatres, the whole interior foreign work, the Print Room at the was gaily decked out in the full Louis Coronet would be a theatrical powerhouse XVI style. Two centuries later the even without its stately setting. As ghost of that original theatre flares like is however, Print Room is hugely 8 FEBRUARY – 9 MARCH 2019 gaslight throughout the building. The enthusiastic about the possibilities of the central performance area in particular Coronet; using their 100 seater ‘black box’ is an impressively weathered fusion studio for everything from screenings of this storied past and a stripped out to art exhibits and performances to modernism. The curved balconies still supplement the main space, alongside all loom imperiously over the stalls, though kinds of community events from poetry the basic shape of the theatre is very readings by celebrities as well-known as different to its original form. Tom Hiddleston to mini-festivals. There Tickets from £15 This change is down to the building’s are many parts of the Coronet that are metamorphosis into the Coronet Notting Hill Gate still hidden from the public eye, but as the-print-room.org Cinema in 1923, the dress circle which time passes don’t be surprised if more originally had a separate entrance than and more of theatre is reborn from the the stalls so the Victorian well-to-do shadows of its past. 020 7738 2348 December 2018 / January 2019 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 49 Events online: www.KCWToday.co.uk A youth club for adults. 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