The curtain is set to rise on an exciting new theatre space carved out of the old Lilla Huset building on Talgarth Road, Hammersmith.
Nestled alongside the flyover between the landmark Ark office block and the new Premier Inn hotel, the building is now home to SCRUM, a theatre cooperative and arts education charity.
“We’ve spent six months transforming the abandoned building into something special,” said Jerrell Cumberbatch from the arts company.
“There are three rehearsal studios, a co-working space for writers, a designers’ workroom, a photography studio and what will soon be a 250-seat theatre.”
It’s a significant addition to Hammersmith & Fulham’s theatre scene in an era when so many performing spaces have disappeared.
Patron and Laurence Olivier award-winning actor Adrian Lester, known to millions from the hit TV series Hustle, will cut the ribbon when the building officially opens in mid-September.
The young team behind SCRUM describes itself as a ‘democratic collective of theatre-makers and artists’, led by a board of trustees that includes Sir David Bell, a former chairman of Sadlers Wells.
Lilla Huset, Swedish for Little House, is an elongated TARDIS-shaped building—it’s 13,500 sq ft and owned and let by the Ark offices next door.
Before moving into its new home, SCRUM ran a series of summer workshops covering acting, directing, Shakespeare, traditional storytelling, drag, movement, voice, clowning, set design and intimacy co-ordination, giving a flavour of the range of activities that can be expected in future.
The SCRUM flexible studio spaces, Sarah, Federico and Ira, are available for hire from £200 per day.
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