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Theatre Spaces 1920-2020

Iain Mackintosh
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  • ISBN 9781350056244
  • Weight: 721g
  • Dimensions: 190 x 244mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Apr 2023
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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In this lavishly illustrated hands-on account of the creation of new theatre spaces spanning a century, Iain Mackintosh offers a compelling history that is part memoir, part impassioned call to rethink the design of our theatre spaces and the future of live theatre. As the originator of theatre designs as diverse as the Cottesloe in 1977, Glyndebourne in 1994, the Orange Tree Theatre in 1991, the Martha Cohen Theatre in 1985 and the Tina Packer Playhouse in 2001, he discovered why the same show worked in some theatres but not in others.

It is this unique blend of experience that informs this account of many of the best-known theatre spaces in Britain, besides many international examples including the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis and the Oslo Opera House. Running throughout is a consideration of factors which have shaped design thinking during this time and which demand attention today. After the long theatre closures driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, Mackintosh argues that now is the time to discover the routes travelled over the last century.

Published in partnership with the Society of Theatre Research, the book features a foreword by Sir Richard Eyre, Director of the National Theatre, 1987–1997.
About Iain Mackintosh
Iain Mackintosh co-founded the Prospect Theatre Company in 1961, taking 75 productions to over a hundred theatres around the world. He then became a designer of theatre spaces in many countries with Theatre Projects Consultants and has been invited as a guest speaker to conferences across five continents. In 1973 he conceived the design of the National Theatre's Cottesloe space, which opened in 1977. Other spaces which he conceived include Martha Cohen, Calgary, Canada (1985), Orange Tree, UK (1991), Glyndebourne, UK (1994), Lawrence Batley, Huddersfield, UK (1994), The Quays at the The Lowry, Salford, UK (2000), Tina Packer Playhouse, Lenox Massachusetts, USA (2001) and Hall Two of The Sage Gateshead, UK (2004). Renovations in which he was closely involved include de Magd Bergen-op-zoom the Netherlands, Dunfermline Opera House transported to Sarasota Florida, Festival Theatre Edinburgh and Royal Court London, UK. He was the first Briton to serve on the jury of the Prague Quadrennial of Scenography and Theatre Architecture in 1995.

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