Hen and Chickens Theatre
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The Hen and Chickens Theatre is a fringe
venue for theatre
and comedy
situated above a pub at Highbury
in the London Borough of Islington
. The theatre management was awarded to actress Felicity Wren
in 1999.
The Mighty Boosh played here numerous times in their early comedy career
Fringe theatre
Fringe theatre is theatre that is not of the mainstream. The term comes from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which name comes from Robert Kemp, who described the unofficial companies performing at the same time as the second Edinburgh International Festival as a ‘fringe’, writing: ‘Round the fringe...
venue for theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
and comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
situated above a pub at Highbury
Highbury
- Early Highbury :The area now known as Islington was part of the larger manor of Tolentone, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Tolentone was owned by Ranulf brother of Ilger and included all the areas north and east of Canonbury and Holloway Road. The manor house was situated by what is now...
in the London Borough of Islington
London Borough of Islington
The London Borough of Islington is a London borough in Inner London. It was formed in 1965 by merging the former metropolitan boroughs of Islington and Finsbury. The borough contains two Westminster parliamentary constituencies, Islington North and Islington South & Finsbury...
. The theatre management was awarded to actress Felicity Wren
Felicity Wren
-Biography:Felicity co-founded the Unrestricted View Theatre company in 1997. Unrestricted View became the resident company at the Hen and Chickens Theatre in Islington, London in 1999. Felicity was joint awarded Best Venue Manager by the Fringe Report in 2005....
in 1999.
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The Mighty Boosh played here numerous times in their early comedy career