![]() At the time of its opening, the Little Theatre invited a group of prominent personalities in both theatre and public life to be Honorary Members. In 1961, the Little Theatre was officially opened by Sir Kenneth Blackbourne with Mr. Lady Foot, wife of Jamaica's Governor Sir Hugh Foot (now Lord Caradon) was also very interested in the LTM and she was instrumental in getting Sir Noel involved with the theatre. Pratley and the late Sir Noel Coward then had detailed discussions and the final design was approved by the LTM. Designs for the theatre were being accepted and finally a design by Gilbert Pratley was chosen. A group of Jamaican community leaders got together to organise the financing of the Little Theatre's structure. The growing pains of the LTM were now very evident. ![]() The Rehearsal Room was opened in 1958 by the late Hon. ![]() Norman Manley and the Government at the time that a grant of five thousand pounds should be made available to erect the Rehearsal Room was a gully, later filled in and built upon because the land area for the proposed Little Theatre needed to be kept clear for the day when a theatre would actually be built. The Library was the first building to go up in 1957 and later the stage area of the LTM's Rainbow Theatre was moved and erected on the present site on Tom Redcam Drive. The flame of a cultural centre was still flickering - enough land was purchased for the Library and the proposed Little Theatre on Tom Redcam Drive. So the LeWars and Fowler team approached the then War department (the land was owned by Camp) to purchase more land adjoining the small available lot. To their dismay, the only piece of land available was a small plot now being used as the parking lot at the present Library. Henry Fowler pioneered through the bush and jungle of the site to look the land over. At that time also, the idea of a cultural centre was being conceived. Russell LeWars mentioned that the KSAC had purchased land in order to put in a bypass road and that some land would be available and could be used by the Library and the Little Theatre Movement. ![]() It was not until 1957 at a meeting of the Kingston and St. The whole idea of the LTM began in 1941 with the Pantomime and other LTM productions in various Kingston locations including the Ward Theatre and the Rainbow Theatre at Half-Way-Tree. ![]()
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