Zoo Story (1971)

Zoo Story by Edward Albee was an open air performance by SLT at 146 Church Road Upper Norwood at 8.30pm on Friday 18 June 1971. The performance was promoted by Crystal Palace Triangle Community Association.

146 Church Road is a large Victorian house which was being used as a language school at the time and was the venue for many CPTCA events; it has since been converted into flats. As the poster advertising the event describes the performance as 'open air', it presumably took place in the garden. The poster also stated that tickets were 10p to members and 20p to non members although it is not clear whether this was referring to members of SLT or the CPTCA.

A poster advertising the performance appears in the book The Amazing Technicolour Triangle by Audrey Hammond (Crystal Palace Community Association, 2019, page 36). Audrey Hammond designed the poster. Although it was previously known that SLT had performed this play in 1971, no further details were available until this book was published.