Pleasure Gardens Theatre

The Pleasure Gardens Theatre was a theatre in Folkestone in Kent. It was opened in 1886 in a building that had previously been constructed as an Exhibition Hall in 1851. It was later converted into a cinema before closing in 1964.[1]

A view of the theatre in 1907

In the interwar years several plays premiered there prior to West End runs including Dorothy Brandon's 1923 hit The Outsider.[2] The following year Sutton Vane's Falling Leaves was first staged at Folkestone.

References

1. "Theatres in Folkestone, Kent". www.arthurlloyd.co.uk.
2. Wearing p.231

Bibliography

• Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.