Английская Википедия:Edinburgh Playhouse
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Edinburgh Playhouse is a theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. With 3,059 seatsШаблон:Efn it is the largest in Scotland and second largest theatre in the United Kingdom, after the Hammersmith Apollo. The theatre is owned by Ambassador Theatre Group.
Building history
The theatre opened on 12 August 1929 as a super-cinema, and was modelled on the Roxy Cinema in New York.[1][2][3] It was designed by the specialist cinema architect John Fairweather, most famous for his Green's Playhouse cinema in Glasgow.[3] The original colour scheme was described on opening as follows: Шаблон:Cquote
The cinema closed down in the early 1970s.[4] Following a threat of demolition, a public campaign achieved a petition of 15,000 signatures which resulted in the building being listed as Category B in 1974.[4] The cinema was then converted into a theatre between 1978 and 1980 by the Lothian Region Architects Department.[3] In 1983, the theatre was sold by Edinburgh District Council into private ownership.[4] The theatre was owned respectively by Norman Springfield, Apollo Leisure Group, SFX and Clear Channel Entertainment before coming to its current owners, ATG in 2009.[4]
The listed status of the building was upgraded by Historic Scotland to Category A in 2008.[3]
Performances
In recent years, The Playhouse has played host to a wide variety of artists and shows.
It also caters to the youth of the surrounding area who are involved in stage experience projects and youth musicals projects in which children as young as 10, and young adults as old as 21, can take part in shows on the stage.
It is used as a venue for both the Edinburgh International Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe each August.[5] It was previously used as a venue for the wrestling and weightlifting events at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.[6]
Technical details
The front of house sound position is somewhat unusually located at the rear of the Dress Circle. Towards the rear of the stalls, there is 41 mm unistrut Product 221-724 fixed to the ceiling to facilitate the hanging delay speakers. In the Gallery there is also a winch bar across the full width of the auditorium to again facilitate the hanging of delay speakers. The theatre now benefits from a lift to bring up 45' trailers and tractor units up to stage level, which is three floors below street level at the rear of the theatre.
Ghost
The building is said to be haunted by a ghost called Albert, a man in a grey coat who appears on level six accompanied by a chill in the air. He is variously said to have been either a stagehand who was killed in an accident or a night-watchman who committed suicide.[7]
See also
Notes
External links
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- ↑ The Scotsman, 10 August 1929
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 Шаблон:Historic Environment Scotland
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 4,2 4,3 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег
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