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West Yorkshire Playhouse
The West Yorkshire Playhouse is a theatre in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the north of England. It opened in 1990 as successor to Leeds Playhouse. It has two auditoria and hosts a wide range of productions and engages in outreach work in the local community.
==History==
The origins of the West Yorkshire Playhouse lie in the earlier Leeds Playhouse, which was established following a campaign for a new theatre begun in 1964. Despite some opposition from the local council on the grounds that Leeds already had a theatre (the Grand Theatre), a public appeal was launched to raise funds at a mass meeting in Leeds Town Hall on 5 May 1968. The meeting was addressed by Peter O'Toole, Keith Waterhouse, and the actor and joint artistic director of Nottingham Playhouse, John Neville, amongst others. £20,000 was raised by public subscription, but the project still needed support from Leeds City Council. The Council eventually promised £25,000, and £5,000 annually if necessary. This, along with grants from the Arts Council and the Gulbenkian Foundation, meant that the project could go ahead and the Leeds Playhouse opened in 1970 in premises loaned to the Leeds Theatre Trust by the University of Leeds. The first performance was held on Wednesday 16 September 1970 with Tony Robinson, who later went on to play Baldric in the television series ''Blackadder'', starring as Simon in Alan Plater's play ''Simon Says'', directed by Bill Hays. The following month Robinson also appeared in ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' by William Shakespeare, where he played Abraham Slender.〔Archives of the Leeds Playhouse, Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds, MS 20c〕
The Leeds Playhouse turned into the West Yorkshire Playhouse in March 1990 when it relocated to the Quarry Hill area of the city as part of a major regeneration scheme.
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