You have decided to get rid of your proscenium theatre space in favour of a thrust space. What if theatre trends change and you decide that was the wrong decision?
One room theatre spaces, like the Swan, aim to get the actor and the audience in the same environment reinforcing the idea that they are part of a collaborative event. Shakespeare wrote for a space where actors and the audience where in the same environment not watching the action in a cinema style space. Over the past five years we have adapted the Royal Shakespeare Theatre stage experimenting with ways to bring the stage further out into the audience. Thrust spaces and one room theatres are nothing new. From the ancient Greeks onwards, audiences and performers have liked the intimacy of a shared space. Most 20th century theatres have sought to create one room rather than two room theatres. Unlike the ‘picture frame’ proscenium theatres a stage which thrusts into the audience allows a quick transformation of mood, scale, setting and environment that in Shakespeare is led by language rather than stagecraft. It also encourages audiences to bring their imagination to the space and to con
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