Theater Royal (Nottingham)
| Theater Royal, Nottingham | |
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| Address: | Theater Square |
| City: | Nottingham |
| Coordinates: | 52 ° 57 '18 " N , 1 ° 9' 5" W |
| Architecture and history | |
| Opened: | 1865 |
| Spectator: | 1,186 places |
| Architect: | Charles J. Phipps |
| Internet presence: | |
| Website: | https://trch.co.uk/ |
| 6 months construction time
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The Theater Royal in Nottingham , England , is a prominent venue in the center of the city and is owned by the city, which also owns the adjacent Royal Concert Hall . Great dramas, opera, ballet and musicals and an annual English pantomime are performed in the Theater Royal .
history
In 1865, the Nottingham Theater Company , owned by top manufacturers John and William Lambert, commissioned the famous theater architect of his time, Charles John Phipps , to build a theater. It should be a "temple of drama" and a "place of innocent recreation and of morality and intellectual culture". At a price of £ 15,000 (today's purchasing power this would correspond to around 1.5 million euros), the building was completed in just six months. The classically designed facade with its Corinthian columns are still a prominent feature in Nottingham's cityscape.
On Monday, 25 September 1865, the house was with the play The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan opened. When the previous manager H Cecil Beryl left the theater in 1897 to run his own theater in his home city of Glasgow , the newly established company The Robert Arthur Theaters Ltd took over the house. The company, which later also went public, was already operating Her Majesty's in Dundee and the Theater Royal in Newcastle .
The society came up with the whole spectrum of acclaimed theatrical performances, operas, revues and English pantomime . When she ran out of funds in 1912, Michael Simons, also from Glasgow, took over the business. Howard & Wyndham Ltd., of which he was the founder and chairman, took over the Robert Arthur Group and its theaters. When the lease expired in 1924, the Moss Empires company acquired the theater.
On October 6, 1952, the house wrote theatrical history with the world premiere of Agatha Christie's play Die Mausefalle (The Mousetrap). Since then, the play has been performed daily in London's West End , making it the longest continuously performed play in the world.
In 1969 the Nottingham City Council acquired the building. Because the theater was in a bad condition ( "... some of the worst backstage conditions in the country" ). it was painstakingly restored at a cost of five million pounds . In an official setting, the house was reopened on June 6, 1978 in the presence of Princess Anna , who was very impressed.
architecture
Built in 1865 (Charles J. Phipps)
The elegant portal with its six Corinthian columns Oolith (obtained from 40 kilometers away quarries in the village of Ancaster ( District South Kesteven , County Lincolnshire ), proper noun: "Ancaster stone") met to establish the wishes of the Lambert brothers a particularly magnificent theater. The presentation of the portal should have the maximum effect and the building was therefore deliberately laid out at the end of a new street that led down from the large market square (today "Old MarketQuare"). It was also named Theater Street (now "Market Street").
The capacity of the theater was 2,200 spectators:
- Parquet: 850
- Lower balcony (Dress Circle): 250
- Middle balcony: 250
- Gallery: 800
- Private boxes: 50
Remodeling in 1897
The renowned theater architect Frank Matcham was commissioned to build the new “Empire Palace of Varieties” next door. The Theater Royal was closed from April to September 1897 to redesign the premises. The work included the construction of new changing rooms behind the theater because the previous location on the side of the building was needed for the Empire. The Empire was home to more popular productions and artists, including Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd , for 60 years . It was replaced in 1980-82 by the Royal Concert Hall (capacity: 2,499 spectators).
Matcham also redesigned the theater's existing auditorium. Here he did pioneering work, as he used steel cantilever beams , which enabled balconies without supporting pillars. He also had this design patented. Without pillars, lowering the stage and increasing the inclination of the tiers, the lines of sight were significantly improved and the audience capacity increased to around 3,000 spectators.
The building today
The theater has four seating levels: the parquet, the first balcony (“dress circle”), the second balcony (“upper circle”) and the top balcony (“balcony”) with a total capacity of 1,186 seats. Seven bars and rentable conference rooms follow.
The theater is connected to the local public transport of the Nottingham Express Transit with a stop of the same name (“Royal Center tram stop”) and uses a nearby car park with 440 spaces.
Individual evidence
- ↑ General Information - History . Archived from the original on June 7, 2019. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
- ^ Theater Royal in Nottingham . Retrieved June 7, 2019.
- ↑ Richard Iliffe: Victorian Nottingham - Volume 7 . Nottingham Historical Film Unit, Nottingham 1972, p. 41.
- ↑ a b Detailed historical information
- ↑ Inflation: the value of the pound 1750-2011 RESEARCH PAPER 12/31 of May 29, 2012, publisher: House of Commons , online as PDF (1.9 kB): [1]
- ↑ Her Majesty's Theater, Seagate, Dundee . Retrieved June 7, 2019.
- ↑ "The Theater Royal: Entertaining a Nation" by Graeme Smith (2008), ISBN 978-0-95594-200-6
- ^ The Theater Royal, 282 Hope Street, Cowcaddens, Glasgow . Retrieved June 7, 2019.
- ↑ http://www.royalcentre-nottingham.co.uk/default.asp?id=20 ( Memento from June 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Royal seal of approval! (en) . In: Evening Post , June 7, 1978, p. 11.
- ↑ Restaurants and Bars . Retrieved July 7, 2019.
- ^ Nottingham Express Transit: Tram Stops: Royal Center . In: TheTrams.co.uk . Retrieved July 7, 2019.