Greetings!
It was a busy winter in theatre-land with opera glasses playing their part in theatre restoration, fund-raising efforts for a new land-mark theatre in Kent plus a cameo appearance at the six nations Rugby at Twickenham. |
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Another big donation for the Theatre's Trust. | |
This month, Philip Main was delighted to present a cheque to the Theatres Trust, for £405.  This marks the eight theatres recently signing up to the service plus one rogue five pound note found stuffed into a glasses dispenser at the Theatre Royal in Norwich.
Mhora Samuel, Director of The Theatres Trust said,
"We're delighted to receive this donation towards the Trust's Resource Centre and I'd like to say a big thank you to the London Opera Glass Company and the theatres who made it possible. We'll be using the funds to provide students and researchers with free access to study our unique collection of architectural and historic books, plans and archives on theatre buildings."
The London Opera Glass Company donates £50 to the Trust for each new theatre that joins the service to help promote all theatre buildings and champion their future.
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Opera Glasses at Twickenham for the rugby.
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 The famous London Opera Glasses have been used at Twickenham for the first time at the recent Six Nations international championship.
The glasses supplied to avid England rugby fan, Alex Layfield were supplied in patriotic white and proved to be very popular.
"When England were battling for a try on France's line at the other end of the pitch the glasses brought play much closer. Really excellent", said Alex who was even more delighted with the England victory over the unfortunate French. |
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Helping out at the new Marlowe. | |
 The London Opera Glass Company has been helping fund raising efforts at the New Marlowe theatre in Canterbury, which is scheduled to open this autumn. Special limited edition opera glasses were donated with the Marlowe Trust logo printed on the side. The glasses were sold at fund raising events and the company also sponsored two seats in the new auditorium.
"We welcome the creativity of the London Opera Glass Company in helping us to achieve our fundraising goals", says Jane Redman of the New Marlowe Theatre Development Trust.
The 1200 seating capacity will allow the Marlowe Theatre to attract bigger and better productions to Canterbury and they have just announced details of their first season. |
