Aldwych Theatre

Aldwych Theatre
a theatre in the West End of London, famous for the Aldwych farces, comedy plays by Ben Travers which were performed there in the 1920s and 1930s. It was the London home of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1960 to 1982.

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