Theater Royal (Edinburgh)
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| Address: | Shakespeare Square (exited) and Broughton Street |
| City: | Edinburgh |
| Coordinates: | 55 ° 57 '11 " N , 3 ° 11' 23" W |
| Architecture and history | |
| Opened: | 1769 |
| Spectator: | 1,500 seats |
| Architects: | unknown (1769), David Bryce (1857, Broughton Street), Charles John Phipps (1864) |
| Closed: 1946 | |
The Theater Royal was a theater in Edinburgh , Scotland and was once located in two different locations in the city. The first theater building was in Shakespeare Square, at the east end of Princess Street, and opened in 1769. It was demolished in 1859 and the name Theater Royal was transferred to the previously rebuilt Queen's Theater and Opereta House on nearby Broughton Street.
history
Shakespeare Square Theater
The first Theater Royal in Edinburgh was opened on December 9, 1769 by artistic director David Ross . An event that the poet James Boswell recorded in verse. In the 1780s a. a. Mary Bulkley up. In July 1792, actress Harriet Pye Esten took over the management after taking over the lease of the house. Stephen Kemble was previously in charge, but Esten's lover Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton , withdrew it. In 1794 Estonians gave them back to him, but made them perform there for £ 200 an annual fee.
The Theater Royal benefited from good artistic directors at the beginning of the 19th century. Actors Sarah Siddons and their eldest son Henry ran the theater from 1809 until Henry's death in 1815. After that, it was continued by his bereaved wife and brother-in-law, actor William Murray . Murray remained artistic director until 1851.
When King George IV visited Edinburgh in 1822 - the first visit by a British monarch to Scotland in 170 years - the writer and nationalist Walter Scott was commissioned by the city council to organize the visit, which he called for the evening of August 27th Put Rob Roy on . He knew William Murray at his side, who designed the sets and costumes. On that occasion, Murray brought the Tartan - kilt on stage. Wearing this style of clothing in public was previously illegal under the Dress Act between 1747 and 1782 . It was also used as simple clothing by Scottish "mountain thieves". The play was a triumphant success and made the Theater Royal the center of the revival of Scottish culture. And the tartan kilt was also valued as a Scottish national good. The theater was successful until the 1850s. In 1859 it was demolished in favor of the General Post Office ( gutted at the beginning of the new millennium and converted into "Waverley Gate", an office complex with an integrated luxury hotel).
Broughton Street Theater
A theater had existed in Broughton Street since 1788. Various new buildings and renaming followed since then: from Jones and Parkers Circus (1788), The Sadler's Wells Theater (new building 1793), Corri's Rooms , or Pantheon (new building as a concert hall 1811) and the Caledonian Theater (1815) until it was renamed Adelphi Theater in 1830. Then on the night of May 23rd to 24th, 1853, a fire destroyed the house. It was rebuilt in 1855 as the Queen's Theater and Opereta House , which, however, burned down again after only two years of operation and had to be replaced by a new building (architect David Bryce ).
When the theater on Shakespeare Square was demolished, the Royale Patent (see also Patent Theater ) was transferred to the Queen's Theater. The general manager was Robert Henry Wyndham . In 1865 the theater burned down but was immediately rebuilt. Further redesigns and redesigns took place in 1875 and 1884. The last new building from 1884 was commissioned by the new tenant Cecil Beryl of the Royal Princess's Theater in Glasgow and carried out by the renowned theater architect Charles John Phipps . The theater became part of Howard & Wyndham Ltd. which constituted itself (with Robert Wyndham's son) in Glasgow in 1895. In the 1920s, Howard & Wyndham leased the establishment to Fred Collins, the tenant of the Glasgow Pavilion Theater , who ran the house as the Theater Royal Varieties and ran a costume tailoring shop nearby.
Final demolition
Much of the house burned out during a fire on March 30, 1946. The theater was supposed to be rebuilt afterwards, but the city administration preferred a different location. Meanwhile, the backstage area spared from the fire was used as an artistic workshop . Plans were drawn up for a new, modern, but smaller theater on the site based on designs by the architect Sir Basil Spence , but were discarded due to the escalating budget. The theater was completely demolished in the late 1950s. The site is now built on with extensions to the neighboring St. Mary's Cathedral .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Edinburgh’s Theater Royal - a history, National Library of Scotland ( Memento of February 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Bulkley née Wilford; Name by marriage Barresford (from John Levitt)
- ^ Estonians, née Bennett; another marriage name was Scott-Waring, after Harriet Pye (1761? –1865), actress, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi: 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 39766
- ^ The King's Jaunt, John Prebble, Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh 2000, ISBN 1-84158-068-6
- ↑ http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/10/12_edinburgh_today_-_edinburgh_gpo.htm
- ↑ Edinburgh Telegraph, December 26, 1884
- ↑ http://collinsvariety.co.uk/
- ↑ http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Edinburgh/TheatreRoyal.htm
- ↑ Details on the 1964 fire , English
