The new, three-tiered structure has been built inside New York's historic Park Avenue Armory. Here, from 6 July - 14 August, Lincoln Center Festival and Park Avenue Armory, in association with The Ohio State University, are presenting the Royal Shakespeare Company for a repertoire of five of Shakespeare's plays - As You Like It, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet and The Winter's Tale.
"The flat pack theatre is a dynamic replica of the RST theatre, originally conceived by Charcoalblue and Bennetts Associates Architects," explains Charcoalblue's design director, Gavin Green. "The project has been led by the RSC's head of construction and technical design manager, Alan Bartlett, and has been designed and built in the RSC's workshops in Stratford-upon-Avon."
Known as the Scarlet & Gray Stage, the theatre is currently enabling US audiences to experience Shakespeare in the same intimate, three-dimensional thrust stage environment as in the bard's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon.
Charcoalblue's managing director Andy Hayles comments, "This latest exciting development follows on from the hugely successful Charcoalblue and RSC collaborations on the 1,000-seat Courtyard Theatre and the 700 seat Roundyard theatre for the RSC's annual season at The Roundhouse in London."
(Jim Evans)
