The Theater Royal is a restored theater in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. This building is one of the eight I-class listed in theaters in the UK, and is the only theater operating under the auspices of the National Trust.
The theater presents a variety of drama, music and stand programs. Regularly produce your own national touring work, Torben Bett's most recent Invincible in the summer of 2016. In early 2017, the Royal Theater will produce an adaptation of Jane Austen Northanger Abbey , which will tour nationally.
The Royal Theater is currently a member of the pioneering Black Theater Live partnership, a consortium of eight British theaters committed to making nationwide changes to the BAME tour through a 3-year national tour program, structural support and sustained audience development.
Video Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
History
The Royal Theater was opened by the owner and architect William Wilkins on October 11, 1819, and is one of the most elegant, sophisticated and up-to-date playhouses of its time. The fact that he has survived, without significant change, to our day is a miracle and is now one of only three buildings to provide a theater experience in pre-Victorian England.
Wilkins is a national reputation architect, responsible for, among other buildings, the National Gallery in London and Downing College, Cambridge. As a Norwich circuit owner, he hires a small player company to do an annual tour of six theaters, Yarmouth, Ipswich, Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Colchester and King's Lynn. Each is open only for one or two short seasons of the year. Bury Theater opens for the Great Exhibition in early October to mid November and is only available for special occasions at other times of the year. At that time, it will certainly enjoy many audiences mainly because local people will not be able to travel far for entertainment, until the arrival of trains in the 1840s.
The Norwich comedians were dissolved in 1843 and in Bury there was more than half a century of economic hardship and theatrical gloom. This was briefly reduced in 1892 when the world premiere of Aunty Charley was performed at the theater. The theater closed in 1903 but reopened in 1906 when changes to the building were made by architect Bertie Crewe.
Greene King, a local brewery, bought a freehold, which was still owned, in 1920. However, in 1925, in the face of the extraordinary competition of two new theaters, the theater closed once again. Greene King has struggled to keep the theater in operation but is now content to use the building as a barrel shop. So it remained until the 1960s when a group of local people led by Air Vice Marshal Stanley Vincent raised over £ 37,000 to restore and reopen the Royal Theater in 1965. The building was held at the National Trust in 1975 at 999- year lease. The Royal Theater is now managed as an independent work theater by Bury St Edmunds Theater Management Limited.
2000s recovery
In September 2005, Theater was closed to begin a £ 5.3 million restoration project to restore the building to the original decorative and decorative schemes of 1819. After extensive research periods, architects Levitt Bernstein, in collaboration with theater staff and the National Trust, drew up plans to restore the historical building as close as possible to the original design.
Previous restoration to the building has removed the original entrance of Georgia to the pit as well as the typical Georgian forest. The boxes had also been removed from the dress circle and the seating layout changed throughout the building.
This project restored these aspects to recreating a theater that could provide further insight into the architecture, stage and repertoire techniques of the 18th and 19th centuries, which is little known compared to the theater of other epochs. In addition to building restoration, the theater's artistic team investigated and rediscovered much of the missing text, from the Georgian repertoire.
Under the banner of "Restoring Repertoire", the Royal Theater produced several dramas from the Georgian period at the restored Theater. On September 11, 2007 the theater reopened with the marine melodrama production of 1829, Black-Eyed Susan , written by Douglas Jerrold.
In addition to the restoration of the main building, a new modern foyer is built on the side of the Theater to provide restaurants, additional bars, and more toilets for buildings.
Maps Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
External links
- Official website
- Royal Theater Information at National Trust
- 360 degree tour of pre-Sept 2007 auditorium
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