Cockpit Theatre

The Cockpit Theatre is a Fringe Theatre in Marylebone, London. The Cockpit Theatre was designed by Edward Mendelsohn built in 1969-70 by the Inner London Education Authority as a community theatre and is notable as London's first purpose built Theatre In The Round, since the Great Fire of London. Ownership transferred from ILEA when it was disbanded in 1990 to the London Borough of Westminster, who made it part of the newly renamed City of Westminster College. It remains one of a handful of purpose built theatre training venues in the capital and is still owned and operated by the City Of Westminster College. Between 1993 and 1995 the Soho Theatre Company took up residence and relaunched itself after a period of homelessness. During...