Above the Stag Theatre
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| Location | London, SW8 United Kingdom |
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| Public transit |   Vauxhall |
| Type | Theatre |
| Genre(s) | Gay |
Above The Stag Theatre is a fringe theatre in London with a focus on producing gay-themed theatre.[1] Its current home is in Vauxhall, in a renovated railway arch. It is the only producing venue in the UK presenting a year-round programme of gay-interest theatre. The auditorium seats an audience of 70; the theatre also houses a bar.
Above The Stag Theatre was founded in 2008 by Peter Bull,[2] who remains its artistic director. From Autumn 2008 to early 2012 its home was above the Stag Pub, a gay pub in Victoria, London, which has since been demolished. Its current home opened in November 2013 with Jack Off the Beanstalk, the latest in its series of annual pantomimes for adults.[3]
Productions in Vauxhall
- Treasure Island - The Curse of the Pearl Necklace, a pantomime by Jon Bradfield & Martin Hooper
- The Bus, a drama by James Lantz
- You Should Be So Lucky, a comedy by Charles Busch
- Bathhouse: The Musical!
- Sandel, an adaptation by Glenn Chandler of Angus Stewart's novel about a relationship between a choirboy and an undergraduate who later becomes his teacher (a Boys of the Empire production, first produced at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013)
- Orton, a musical about playwright Joe Orton and his lover and murderer Kenneth Halliwell
- A Hard Rain, a play set in Greenwich Village in the two weeks leading up to the 1969 Stonewall Riots, by Jon Bradfield & Martin Hooper.[4][5] The play was simultaneously published by Nick Hern Books.[6]
- The Gay Naked Play. UK premiere of David Bell's satire on gay and fringe theatre[7]].
- Jack Off the Beanstalk, a pantomime
