Synopsis Recreating the unique spirit of 1940's radio plays, and brilliantly evoking a dinner-jacketed age of casual imperialism and stiff upper lips, The Fitzrovia Radio Hour tours fresh from three critically-acclaimed London residencies and a sell-out Edinburgh Festival run. Performed with cut-glass theatricality blending homage and satire, Fitzrovia mixes the chauvinist-imperialist attitudes of 1940s Britain with sharp contemporary humour to produce a heady comic cocktail. Throughout the plays, sound effects are created live: a Bakelite hairdryer imitates a heating torch, a desk fan becomes an aeroplane, and multiple types of cabbage help to stage a fight scene. Rippingly good fun!
Opened 5 Jun 1913. The Mousetrap opened here on 25 Nov 52 (a palindromic date - 25/11/52) and later transferred to St Martin's (Mar74). 460 seats. Likely to be split in two under a major re-design by William Dudley. From 1996 for a couple of years this theatre housed the Royal Court Upstairs while their Sloane Square theatre was refurbished. After refurbishment it was re-opened as the New Ambassadors. An [ATG] member. Society of London Theatre member. Following acquirition by Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen in April 2007 the theatre name reverted to The Ambassadors
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