The Complete World Of Sports (Abridged) Tickets London
Let the games begin! The "bad boys of abridgement" are back in London with The Complete World Of Sports (Abridged) following a highly successful run in New York and a sell-out US tour of the show. In this West End premiere, the entire history of athletic competition is revisited in a marathon of mayhem and madness that sees the world's great sporting events cut down to theatrical size as only they know how.
Among the many questions that will be answered are: Is darts really a sport? What does NASCAR stand for? Why do Americans insist on calling a competition in which only they compete a "World Series"?
How about wife carrying, extreme ironing and bog snorkelling? Surely these pastimes should get the recognition they deserve? Which is more boring – baseball or cricket? Who invented curling and synchronised swimming and how and why are they in the Olympics?
Be it the ancient cavemen or the Classical Greeks, Romans, the Elizabethans or the modern sports media, The Complete World of Sports (Abridged) brings you all the excitement, emotion, drama and the scandal of global sports...
Every sport ever played on every continent in the entire history of the world is featured in under two hours!
Let's play ball!
Theatre tickets in London to all performances and productions at the Arts Theatre are available to book securely through this website.
The Arts Theatre in London is a theatre in Great Newport Street, in Westminster, Central London and operates as the West End's smallest commercial receiving house
The Arts Theatre seats 350 people in a two-tier basement auditorium. It opened on 20th April 1927 as a members only club for the performance of unlicensed plays, thus avoiding theatre censorship by the Lord chamberlain's Office. It was one of a small number of committed, independent theatre companies which took risks by producing a diverse range of new and experimental plays, or plays that were thought to be commercially non-viable on the regular west end stage. The theatrical producer Norman Marshall referred to these as ‘The Other Theatre' in his book of the same name in 1947.
The Arts theatre opened with Picnic, which was a revue by Herbert Farjeon, produced by Harold Scott and music by Beverley Nichols. Its first important production was Young Woodley staged in 1928, which later transferred to the Savoy Theatre when the Lord Chamberlain's ban was finally lifted. In 1938 a four week revival of the Stokes brothers Oscar Wilde starring Francis L. Sullivan opened on 25 October. This coincided with a Broadway production of the play. In 1942 Alec Clunes and John Hanau took over running of the theatre, and for the next ten years produced a wide range of plays, winning a reputation as a 'pocket national theatre.'
In August 1955, Peter Hall aged just 24, directed the English language premiere of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot at the theatre which was an important turning point in modern theatre in th UK..Subsequently, from 1956 to 1959, Hall ran the Arts Theatre.
According to Who's Who in the Theatre, between April 1962 and January 1967 the Arts Theatre was known the New Arts Theatre.and from 1967 to 1999, the Arts also became a home for The Unicorn children's theatre under the direction of its founder Caryl Jenner who took over the lease. Meanwhile adult performances continued in the evening, including Tom Stoppard's satirical double-bill, Dirty Linen and Newfoundland which after opening in June 1976, ran for four years at the Arts.
The lease of the theatre was taken over by a consortium of UK and US producers in 2000, for a five-year period, and relaunched as a West End Theatre. The Arts now operates as the West End's smallest commercial receiving house.
Theatre tickets to performances at the Arts Theatre can be purchased securely online through this website.
