Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Shakespeare Played Small: Three Speculations about the Body
- The Architecture of the Fortune Playhouse
- The Bare Island
- ‘How Chances it they Travel?’ Provincial Touring, Playing Places, and the King’s Men
- Writing for the Metropolis: Illegitimate Performances of Shakespeare in Early Nineteenth-Century London
- The Perishable Body of the Unpoetic: A. C. Bradley Performs Othello
- Playing Places for Shakespeare: The Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich
- ‘A Fairly Average Sort of Place’: Shakespeare in Northampton, 1927–1987
- The Living Monument: Self and Stage in the Criticism and Scholarship of M. C. Bradbrook
- Stratford Stages: Interviews with Michael Reardon and Tim Furby, and Sam Mendes
- Dis-Covering the Female Body: Erotic Exploration in Elizabethan Poetry
- Theseus’ Shadows in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- ‘Time for Such a Word’: Verbal Echoing in Macbeth
- Shakespeare’s Knowledge of Italian
- Tamburline and Edward Alleyn’s Ring
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 1992–1993
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January-December 1992
- The Year's Contributions to Shakespeare Studies 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare’s Life, Times, and Stage
- 3 Editions and Textual Studies
- Books Received
- Index
Stratford Stages: Interviews with Michael Reardon and Tim Furby, and Sam Mendes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2007
- Frontmatter
- Shakespeare Played Small: Three Speculations about the Body
- The Architecture of the Fortune Playhouse
- The Bare Island
- ‘How Chances it they Travel?’ Provincial Touring, Playing Places, and the King’s Men
- Writing for the Metropolis: Illegitimate Performances of Shakespeare in Early Nineteenth-Century London
- The Perishable Body of the Unpoetic: A. C. Bradley Performs Othello
- Playing Places for Shakespeare: The Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich
- ‘A Fairly Average Sort of Place’: Shakespeare in Northampton, 1927–1987
- The Living Monument: Self and Stage in the Criticism and Scholarship of M. C. Bradbrook
- Stratford Stages: Interviews with Michael Reardon and Tim Furby, and Sam Mendes
- Dis-Covering the Female Body: Erotic Exploration in Elizabethan Poetry
- Theseus’ Shadows in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- ‘Time for Such a Word’: Verbal Echoing in Macbeth
- Shakespeare’s Knowledge of Italian
- Tamburline and Edward Alleyn’s Ring
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 1992–1993
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January-December 1992
- The Year's Contributions to Shakespeare Studies 1 Critical Studies
- 2 Shakespeare’s Life, Times, and Stage
- 3 Editions and Textual Studies
- Books Received
- Index
Summary
MICHAEL REARDON AND TIM FURBY
The architects Michael Reardon and Tim Furby have worked on all three of the RSC’s theatres in Stratford, designing the Swan Theatre and the new Other Place and undertaking a number of alterations to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre including, in 1993, a major refurbishing of the auditorium.
peter holland How did you first become involved in working for the Royal Shakespeare Company?
michael reardon It began very modestly. David Brierley, the company's General Manager, asked us to develop a modest scheme to seat about 140 people in the converted rehearsal studio, the Conference Hall at the rear of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, created in the shell of the old theatre which burned down in 1926. John Napier, a stage-designer with the RSC, had sketched a scheme, similar to the Pit in the Barbican, with metal tiered seating, facing in the opposite direction to the current shape of the Swan. David Brierley already had a sense that it would not work and would not meet the complex regulations controlling theatres.
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- Shakespeare Survey , pp. 117 - 126Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994