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Old Vic celebrates bicentenary with procession and street party

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Waterloo's Old Vic theatre celebrated the bicentenary of its opening in 1818 with a procession and street party on Saturday.

Old Vic celebrates bicentenary with procession and street party
The 'Bicentenary Banners' were designed by Morley College tutor Lucy Firth
Old Vic celebrates bicentenary with procession and street party
The procession paused outside St John's Waterloo where ZooNation breakdancers performed to represent the historic links between Sadler's Wells and The Old Vic

Saturday's procession featured representatives of some of the organisations whose history overlaps with The Old Vic, including Morley College, Sadler's Wells and the English National Opera.

The procession – led by a marching band from Kansas Smitty's – began at the Laurence Olivier statue outside the National Theatre and made its way through the streets of Waterloo to The Old Vic, where a street party was held in Webber Street.

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