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Dateline: 23rd June, 2010

The interior

Another Waterloo Theatre

Following the Old Vic Tunnels under Waterloo Station and the forthcoming production of The Railway Children in the former Eurostar Terminal, a new theatre is to open under Waterloo East Station, with an entrance in Brad Street.

The Waterloo East Theatre, which will seat 120 people, is in a disused railway arch and will include a bar and box office. It will be a not-for-profit receiving house as well as staging its own community and educational theatre productions. The theatre has been developed by Gerald Armin, a theatre producer who founded Fairbank Productions in 1991.

Much of the theatre is built from recycled materials. The seats have been donated by The Brook Theatre in Chatham, and the lighting operator’s window, bought on Ebay, used to be a horsebox window. The floor is made from scrapped building site hoardings and the bar was originally an Ikea bookcase.

"It's a shoestring budget put together by myself and two partners," Armin told the Guardian. "There is no funding, no grant, no bank loan to fall back on."

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