Incredibly earnest community theatre with a "special emphasis on movement, gesture, and visual impact" They have a great reputation for new dance.

The main CPT theatre is street-level and small but psychically spacious, having a kind of dry sepulchral air which is (usually) excited rather than interrupted by the sonic interventions of passing Hampstead Road revellers. There's also a zero-rake basement space which is hot like the home of the Devil and likely to activate latent claustrophobic anxieties.

The CPT is a friendly, well thought out theatre and they get some great new writers here thanks to the arty community living around them.