Going Dark
Going Dark (2022) is a photo coffee-table book by Australian photographer Troy David Johnston. The photo book contains a series of images of the closed theatres across the West End and Greater London during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic. Alongside the images are testimonials and commentaries from a range of theatre professionals that speak to their memories of these theatres and their experience of the closures.
The first editions of the book (ISBN 978-1-3999-1378-2) were published in April 2022 by Matcham Books in the United Kingdom.
Style
The images in the series are predominantly in black and white, but also contain sections in colour. These sections are usually the theatre marquee or a distinct architectural element of a particular theatre. There is a mixture of wide angle shots of almost deserted streets where the theatres are located, to shots of the building facades, through to close ups of locked stage doors.
List of Theatres
The following theatres appear in photographs in the book.
- Above The Stag
- Adelphi Theatre
- Aldwych Theatre
- Almeida Theatre
- Ambassadors Theatre
- Apollo Theatre
- Apollo Victoria Theatre
- Arcola Theatre
- Arts Theatre
- Barbican Centre
- Battersea Arts Centre
- Bridge Theatre
- Bush Theatre
- Cambridge Theatre
- Charing Cross Theatre
- Criterion Theatre
- Dominion Theatre
- Donmar Warehouse
- Duchess Theatre
- Duke of York’s Theatre
- Eventim Apollo
- Fortune Theatre
- Garrick Theatre
- Gielgud Theatre
- Gillian Lynne Theatre
- Greenwich Theatre
- Hackney Empire
- Hampstead Theatre
- Harold Pinter Theatre
- Her Majesty’s Theatre
- Kiln Theatre
- King’s Head Theatre
- London Coliseum
- London Hippodrome Casino
- London Palladium
- Lyceum Theatre
- Lyric Theatre
- Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
- Menier Chocolate Factory
- Royal National Theatre
- New Wimbledon Theatre
- Noël Coward Theatre
- Novello Theatre
- The Old Vic
- Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
- The Other Palace
- Palace Theatre
- Park Theatre
- Phoenix Theatre
- Piccadilly Theatre
- Playhouse Theatre
- Prince Edward Theatre
- Prince of Wales Theatre
- Richmond Theatre
- Rose Playhouse Theatre
- Royal Albert Hall
- Royal Court Theatre
- Royal Opera House
- Sadler’s Wells Theatre
- Savoy Theatre
- Shaftesbury Theatre
- Shakespeare’s Globe
- Soho Theatre
- Sondheim Theatre
- Southwark Playhouse
- St. Martin’s Theatre
- Theatre 503
- Theatre Peckham
- Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Theatre Royal Stratford East
- Trafalgar Studios
- Tristan Bates Theatre
- Turbine Theatre
- Unicorn Theatre
- Union Theatre
- Vaudeville Theatre
- Victoria Palace Theatre
- Wilton’s Music Hall
- Wyndham’s Theatre
- The Yard
- The Young Vic
List of Contributors
The following people have contributed written commentary pieces in the photo book.
- HRH Prince Edward, The Earl of Wessex
- Ricardo Afonso
- Jim Arnold, CDG
- Scott Arnold
- Gemma Atkins-Wilkinson
- Sir Alan Ayckbourn, CBE FRSA
- Rob Barnard
- EJ Boyle
- Anthony Bristoe
- Caitlin Brogan
- Nick Bromley
- Niall Buggy
- Lizzie Burder
- Nica Burns, OBE
- Bobbie Chatt
- Glenn Close
- Sir Michael Codron, CBE
- Ray Cooney, OBE
- Alice Cridland
- Stephen Daldry, CBE
- Jim Dale, MBE
- Joseph Davenport
- Janie Dee
- Dame Judi Dench, CH DBE FRSA
- Anita Dobson
- Kerry Ellis
- Ben Elton
- Nadia Fall
- Ryan Alex Farmery
- Alice Fearn
- Daniel Finn
- Chris Fisher
- Ben Forster
- Lizzie Frankl
- Sonia Friedman, OBE
- Richard Goulding
- Madeleine Gray
- Stephanie Greenwood
- Tamsin Greig
- Francesca Hayward
- Gregory Hazel
- Stu Holden
- Richard Hope
- Jacqueline Hughes
- Joanna Hunnisett
- Celia Imrie
- Anthony Inglis, ARCM
- Melissa Jacques
- David Michael Johnson
- Daniel Jones
- Toby Jones, OBE
- Ruth Keeling
- Sue Kelvin
- Debbie Kurup
- Melanie La Barrie
- Bonnie Langford
- Henry Lewis
- Laura Linney
- Katy Lipson
- Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber Kt
- Robin Longley
- Christian Lund
- Patrick Marber
- Francesca Martinez
- Tim McArthur
- Sir Ian McKellen, CH CBE
- Susie McKenna
- Suzann McLean
- Oliver Mears
- Tim Minchin AM
- Annilese Miskimmon
- Dr Stuart Morley, BMus PGDip PhD DipRAM ARAM
- Tom Morris OBE
- Mazz Murray
- Justin Nardella
- Paul Nicholas
- Sir Trevor Nunn, CBE
- Andy Nyman
- Richard O’Brien
- Michael Oakley
- Elaine Paige, OBE
- Adam Pascal
- Clarke Peters
- Dame Arlene Phillips, DBE
- Dominique Pierre-Louis
- Philip Quast
- Bryan Raven
- Sasha Regan
- Sir Tim Rice
- Jon Robyns
- Indhu Rubasingham, MBE
- Stephen Schwartz
- Sarah Sendell
- Caroline Sheen
- Denise Silvey
- Petra Siniawski
- Imelda Staunton, CBE
- Sir Tommy Steele, OBE
- Imogen Stubbs
- Danielle Tarento
- Sir Bryn Terfel Jones, CBE
- Peter Thomas
- Dame Emma Thompson, DBE
- Harriet Thorpe
- Joe Toland
- George Ure
- Willemijn Verkaik
- Dame Harriet Walter, CBE
- Kenny Wax
- Layton Williams
- Angela Wingrove
- Hugh Wooldridge
- Phil Wright
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