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Mr Beeston and the Cockpit

24 August 2017 By Jemahl Evans

Jemahl Evans brings us a brief history of London’s first West End theatre.  The Cockpit Theatre in Drury Lane was initially, as its name suggests, a venue for cockfights and animal baiting on the east side of Drury Lane with an entrance in Cockpit Alley. As such it was the first playhouse in the West […]

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