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Article: Almeida plays away in a festival atmosphere; Ian McDiarmid, co-artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, tells Terry Grimley why London's hottest theatre company decided to chill out in Malvern t his summer.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- July 21, 1998
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Over the last eight years, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal National Theatre have faced a new challenger as Britain's natural home for excellence in classical theatre.
The Almeida, built in 1837 as a literary and scientific institute in the north London borough of Islington, was rescued from dereliction and relaunched as a theatre in 1980. But it was the arrival of actor Ian McDiarmid and director Nicholas Kent asjoin t artistic directors ten years later which transformed it into a year-round producing theatre with a reputation for an enterprising choice of ...
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