The Plowright Theatre, is a live entertainment venue on Laneham Street in

Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire Scunthorpe () is an industrial town and unparished area in the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire in Lincolnshire, England of which it is the main administrative centre. Scunthorpe had an estimated total population of 82,334 in 2016. A pr ...

. It is owned and run by North Lincolnshire Council. It is the Sister Venue to the

Baths Hall The Baths Hall is an entertainment venue in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England. It hosts many types of entertainment, including live music, dance and comedy. History Situated at 59 Doncaster Road, the Scunthorpe building is a former public ...

located on Doncaster Road in Scunthorpe. The Plowright Theatre was commissioned by the former Scunthorpe Borough Council and built by J. W. Taylor in 1958. It is a traditional proscenium style

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

with a 354 seat auditorium. Originally known as ''Scunthorpe Civic Theatre'' it was renamed in the 1990s in recognition of the achievements of local actress

Joan Plowright Joan Ann Olivier, Baroness Olivier, (née Plowright; born 28 October 1929), professionally known as Dame Joan Plowright, is an English retired actress whose career has spanned over seven decades. She has won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony ...

. Plowright was born in

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, educated in Scunthorpe, and is currently the President of ''Scunthorpe Little Theatre Club''. The club was founded by her father, Bill Plowright, and staged the theatre's first performance, Peer Gynt, in 1958.

Performances

Scunthorpe Musical Theatre Society performs a musical every year at the theatre, as does the Scunthorpe Gilbert and Sullivan Amateur Operatic Society. In March 2008, previous box office records at the theatre were broken, after tickets for comedian Lee Evans became the fastest sell-out in the theatre's history. The local newspaper reported that a queue had formed at the box office at 6am, and that all tickets were sold within 65 minutes after the box office opened at 10:30am.

References

{{Commonscat, The Plowright Theatre, Scunthorpe Theatres in Lincolnshire Buildings and structures in Scunthorpe