Tea House Theatre

Winner of Time Out Love London Awards 2014, 2016 & 2018!
Winner of the Best Closed Cafe Award 2020!

WELCOME TO THE TEA HOUSE THEATRE

Great news! Our tea subscription just landed! And we are offering a free UK delivery to all our tea subscribers. Have your favourite tea delivered every month for the whole year by buying it as a subscription.  With one simple purchase the cost of the tea will be debited every month and delivered to your door, so that you never run out.  One purchase, no worries and a constant supply of superb tea for whenever you need it.

And of course have a look at our range of excellent teas in our eTea shop if you want to buy just one off.

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We are based in an old Victorian public house that opened in 1886 on the site of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens; immortalised as the ‘Vanity Fair’ in Thackeray’s eponymous novel.

We serve some of the best loose leaf teas available, proper sandwiches and homemade cakes; not to mention the best full English breakfast in London. Our teas have individual subtle flavours which would be overpowered by the instant, coarse, hit of coffee, so we do not sell it.

We make our own marmalade and jams, all for sale by the jar and all our teas can be bought by the ounce online (to view our range click here). Our meat comes from our local butcher and our fruit and vegetables from the local market gardens around us.

We are trying to be different. We will not hurry you. If you visit us on your lunch break, then have one, you will be more productive in the afternoon. If you want to have a meeting, we will not disturb you. If you are ‘working from home’, we have wifi. If you have children, we have highchairs, a chest of toys, and milkshakes. We always have the daily papers, so please, relax, and share in what we are trying to create, take a load off, and have a cuppa.

ALAIN ENGLISH

RESIDENT ARTIST


Alain English is the resident artist at the Tea House Theatre; despite being called Alain English he is in fact Scottish. His performances of Rabbie Burns at our Burns' Night Suppers in January have become the stuff of legend. He has worked with the Tea House since its inception producing a number of plays and performances of Shakespeare, and fireside readings, not to mention being a star of the Tea House Youtube Channel.

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Dimitry Devdariani

RESIDENT DIRECTOR

Born in 1974 and raised in T'bilisi, Georgia. Dimitry was trained as an actor and artist and has written more than thirty plays. His productions gained wide acclaim from the media and encouraged his directing ambitions.

Dimitry has been called a director to watch and hailed for his fantastic productions. We are incredibly lucky to have him working with us at the Tea House to bring some frankly amazing theater to our stage.

He recently brought us a world premier of Threads by Jean Cocteau and is always working to bring us new and exciting productions.


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Don’t Go Into The Cellar!

RESIDENT THEATRE COMPANY

Victorian Theatre with Bite!

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Kjell Zillen

Kjell is our resident artist and a London-based artist who works under the name Bats Wear Black. He creates fable-like illustrations with ink, paint and pieces of vintage fabric. A lot of the inspiration for his work, still, comes from having grown up near wild woodlands in the eastern parts of The Netherlands.

Kjell’s illustrations have been described as ‘delicately odd with a dollop of whimsical’ and Kjell is the number one fan of the person who wrote that!

If you’d like to see more from Bats Wear Black please visit here or there