Open air theater
The Open Air Theater in Regent’s Park in London is an open-air stage that is used for three to four months in the summer. The stage was founded in 1932 by Sydney Carroll and Robert Atkins .
The stage is primarily used by the New Shakespeare Company , which is also the owner of the facility. The summer season usually presents a production of Midsummer Night's Dream , another play by Shakespeare , a musical and a children's theater, which are performed alternately. The members of the ensemble are often used in several, if not all, productions of a season.
The theater, which offers space for 1200 spectators, is located in the innermost area of Regent's Park and is therefore completely surrounded by the park. According to its own information, the theater has one of the longest bars of any London theater, which stretches the length of the rows of seats. Full meals are served here from one and a half hours before the start of the game and during the break. Barbecue is offered as well as a picnic area with tables where the public can consume food they have brought with them.
The facility includes a large backstage area with a lounge for actors and technicians, workshops for building and maintaining the scenery and offices for administration, lighting and sound technology and other employees.
As an open-air theater, the Open Air Theater is heavily dependent on the English weather , which caused frequent interruptions and failures around the 2007 season. If the weather is bad, the Met Office will be contacted immediately for the latest weather forecast. As a rule, performances cannot be postponed for more than 45 minutes. This is especially true for matinee events, as a delayed end of the same would disrupt the technical preparations for the evening performances.
Individual evidence
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- Guide to British Theaters 1750-1950 , John Earl and Michael Sell, pp. 129f (Theaters Trust, 2000). ISBN 0-7136-5688-3 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 42.5 " N , 0 ° 9 ′ 17.1" W.