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Discover Experimentation - Roundhouse - Celebrating 50 Years

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS

Experimentation

Experimentation is the trialling of new artistic ideas by exploring performance territory that is unfamiliar. It pushes the boundaries of conventional popular art and encourages audiences to open their minds to the new and unexpected.

Ron Arad's Curtain Call

Ten years of transforming lives through creativity

Brook, Shakespeare and the radical Roundhouse

Welcome to the big top!

Bauhaus Ziggy Stardust video shoot 1982

In pictures: Bauhaus do Bowie, Ziggy Stardust video shoot in pictures

Rare photos from the 1991-1992 illegal rave

RD Laing at the Dialectics of Liberation conference

The Dialectics of Liberation

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: From working men’s clubs to the Roundhouse

Artistic Highlights credit david levene

In pictures: artistic highlights

Shock and awe in Roundhouse Theatre

Man with sparkler on opening night 1966

Snapshots from the opening night

Arnold Wesker's vision of art for all

In pictures: David Bowie and The Hype

That's me: Me, my girlfriend and the naked man

Oh Calcutta!

Interview with Arlene Phillips

Llamas, pigs and flying dogs

De La Guarda - An acid trip without the acid!

Elton, flamenco guitar and a harp playing nun – Roundhouse variety in the 70s

What circus means to us

The not so quiet years: mind-blowing circus and dance

Top 10 transformative Shakespeare performances at the Roundhouse

“The show filtered into your flesh!” Being part of the De La Guarda residency

The Taming of the Shrew, 1975

Working at the Roundhouse: Prue Skene

Revelling in the Atomic Sunrise

Roll up roll up! 40 years of circus at the Roundhouse

"It’s a safe place to grow and to experiment"

Steven Berkoff: the master of villainous theatre

I was there: Opening night lighting designer, Joel Brown