Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate
Coordinates: 51°30′36″N 0°11′56″W / 51.510°N 0.199°W The Mercury Theatre was a small theatre on Ladbroke Road, Notting Hill Gate, London, notable for the productions of poetic dramas between 1933 and 1956, and as the home of the Ballet Rambert until 1987.
The Mercury Theatre was opened in 1933 by Ashley Dukes for the production of new drama and to serve as a centre for the Ballet Rambert, run by his wife Marie Rambert. The building, at 2, Ladbroke Road, London W11, had been built in 1851, but was extensively altered to serve as a theatre. It was a well-equipped but small venue, seating about 150.
The style was set by the first production, Jupiter Translated, an adaptation of Molière's Amphitryon by W. J. Turner with a ballet by Rupert Doone as entr'acte. The theatre's reputation was established in 1935 by the first London productions of T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, transferred from Canterbury, and two years later by Auden and Isherwood's poetic play The Ascent of F6.
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