Embassy Theatre

About

The Embassy Theatre is a theatre at 64 Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, in the London Borough of Camden, England.

Early years: The Embassy Theatre was opened as a repertory company in September 1928 on the initiative of Sybil Arundale and Herbert Jay, when the premises of Hampstead Conservatoire of Music were adapted by architect Andrew Mather. The following were some of its productions:

The Yellow Streak, September 1928. This was the opening production, featuring Jeanne de Casalis, Martita Hunt and Cecil Parker. The play was praised by the writer Dorothy Richardson. The Seventh Guest, October 1928, a mystery melodrama with Cecil Parker and Margaret Rawlings From September 1930 to March 1932, the theatre was directed by Alec L. Rea and A. R. Whatmore. Productions included:

Black Coffee (premiere), by Agatha Christie (her first play), December 1930, produced by André van Gyseghem, with Francis L. Sullivan as Poirot and also featuring Donald Wolfit. Carpet Slippers, December 1930, with Griffith Jones (his debut) and Sebastian Shaw Mary Broome, by Allan Monkhouse, December 1931, with Robert Donat and Herbert Lomas. This was a sudden and (still) unexplained substitution for the play originally...