undercroft

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On the evening before the stymied British Parliament decided that the best course of action it could possibly take was to dissolve itself, Dame Caroline Spelman, a Conservative M.P. who has represented the Midlands constituency of Meriden for twenty-two years, cast her vote on the Prime Minister’s call for an early election, then descended to the Chapel of St. Mary Undercroft, for a restorative hour and a half of singing.

From The New Yorker

Once you’ve found your way inside the Shed, shuffled unceremoniously through an undercroft beneath the High Line, you ascend a distinctly mall-like sequence of escalators to reach the three principal levels of galleries, which themselves feel like an extension of the spec office block next door, with plasterboard walls, suspended ceilings, and already cracked concrete floors.

From The Guardian

Steven Carpenter’s production in the intimate Undercroft Theater races like a speedboat but still seems long at two hours.

From Washington Post

Further along is the oldest part of the abbey, the undercroft, used as the treasury.

From Washington Post

Meanwhile, director Kasi Campbell’s tasteful staging in the intimate Undercroft Theatre jolts your senses with muffled haunted-house effects.

From Washington Post