Question: Where is the theatre located that Ralph Richardson joined in 1931?

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The Old Vic: The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre, located just south-east of Waterloo station on the corner of the Cut and Waterloo Road in Lambeth, London, England.  Established in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre, and renamed in 1833 the Royal Victoria Theatre, in 1871 it was rebuilt and reopened as the Royal Victoria Palace.  It was taken over by Emma Cons in 1880 and formally named the Royal Victoria Hall, although by this time it was already known as the "Old Vic".  In 1898, a niece of Cons, Lilian Baylis assumed management and began a series of Shakespeare productions in 1914.  The building was damaged in 1940 during air raids and it became a Grade II* listed building in 1951 after it reopened.

Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham: Everyman Theatre is theatre is based in Regent Street, Cheltenham.  There are two stages in the building - the 694 seat main stage and the 60 seat Studio Theatre, originally named The Richardson after Ralph Richardson.

Ralph Richardson: Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.  He worked in films throughout most of his career, and played more than sixty cinema roles.  From an artistic but not theatrical background, Richardson had had no thought of a stage career until a production of "Hamlet" in Brighton inspired him to become an actor.  He learned his craft in the 1920s with a touring company and later the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.  In 1931 he joined the Old Vic, playing mostly Shakespearean roles.  He led the company the following season, succeeding Gielgud, who had taught him much about stage technique.  After he left the company, a series of leading roles took him to stardom in the West End and on Broadway.

Merrimack Repertory Theatre: Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) is a non-profit professional theatre located in Lowell, Massachusetts.  Known for its productions of contemporary work and world premieres, the company presents a September - May season of seven plays at the Nancy L. Donahue Theatre in the historic Liberty Hall, a 279-seat theatre located adjacent to the Lowell Memorial Auditorium.  MRT is the only professional theatre company in the Merrimack Valley region of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and one of three League of Resident Theatres (LORT) members in Massachusetts.

Q Planes: Q Planes (known as Clouds Over Europe in the United States) is a 1939 British comedy spy film starring Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and Valerie Hobson.  Olivier and Richardson were a decade into their 50-year friendship and theatrical collaboration and had just completed "Othello", with Richardson in the title role and Olivier as Iago, when this film was made.  The film was produced by Irving Asher, an American, with British film impresario Alexander Korda as executive producer.

George Richardson (ice hockey): George Taylor Richardson (September 14, 1886 – February 10, 1916) was a Canadian ice hockey player in the era before professional ice hockey.  Richardson played for Queen's University.  George was regarded as one of the best hockey players of his era, either professional or amateur.  After graduating from Queen's, Richardson joined the family grain-handling business.  He later became a hockey executive.  During World War I, Richardson enlisted in the army and died in action in Belgium.

Home at Seven (film): Home at Seven is a 1952 British mystery drama film directed by and starring Ralph Richardson.  It also featured Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins, Campbell Singer and Michael Shepley.  It was based on the play "Home at Seven" by R. C. Sherriff.  The film remains Richardson's only work as a film director.  It follows a man who returns to his suburban home one evening to discover that he has been missing for 24 hours, despite not remembering the 'lost' day.

Lee Richardson (speedway rider): Lee Stewart Richardson (25 April 1979 – 13 May 2012) was a British international motorcycle speedway rider.  Richardson represented Great Britain at senior and under-21 level and featured in several World Cup tournaments.  Richardson was World Under 21 champion in 1999 and also won the Elite League Riders' Championship in 2003.  He was also a fully fledged Grand Prix rider for four seasons from 2003 until 2006.  Richardson joined the Lakeside Hammers for the 2009 season.  On 13 May 2012, Richardson died of internal bleeding in a Wrocław hospital following a collision with a safety fence during a Polish League match.

Ralph Richardson, roles and awards: Sir Ralph Richardson (1902–1983) was an English actor who appeared on radio, film, television and stage.  Described by "The Guardian" as "indisputably our most poetic actor", and by the director David Ayliff as "a natural actor ... [who] couldn't stop being a perfect actor", Richardson's career lasted over 50 years.  He was—in the words of his biographer, Sheridan Morley—one "of the three great actor knights of the mid-twentieth century", alongside Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.

John Gielgud: Sir Arthur John Gielgud ( ; 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades.  With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trio of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century.  A member of the Terry family theatrical dynasty, he gained his first paid acting work as a junior member of his cousin Phyllis Neilson-Terry's company in 1922.  After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art he worked in repertory theatre and in the West End before establishing himself at the Old Vic as an exponent of Shakespeare in 1929–31.

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Answer: Lambeth, London, England