[SML] Floor plans of black box/studio theatres they really like?

[Riter, Andrew]

A gallery catwalk +10'  on one wall (either for audience for school pieces/projects, OR a performance area without building a set)

Catwalk where the railings were canted out (30deg ??) from vertical.  It meant that you never needed to yoke out a lamp that was top light, AND you could double stack lamps, one off the mid-rail, and 1 off the top rail, AND they didn't interfere with each other.

Large doors (15' tall, 5' wide each half) to the carp shop

Noise dampers in the doors to prevent noise coming into the space.

Storage space, that isn't THE wing space or the loading dock.

Andrew M. Riter 
Assistant Technical Director, Head Lighting Technician
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

604-822-2372
andrew.riter at ubc.ca

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> Subject: [SML] Floor plans of black box/studio theatres they really like?
> 
> Howdy all... I'm putting together a "wish list" of sorts (pipe dreams,
> really) for potentially a new black box/studio theatre....
> purpose-built, rather than a re-purposed space.  I'm digging through my
> notes and drawings from when my current building was in the design mode,
> and I can't find the proposals the architects and theatre consultants pitched,
> when there was a discussion of building the black box from scratch. It was a
> pretty good design, but I just can't find it.  Anyway, no big deal.
> 
> Does anyone have any floor plans of spaces they really thought worked well?
> Good audience egress, good access for the actrons and scenery...
> good circulation and very flexible (but not in a "It's flexible because of all the
> awesome moving walls and elevators and other kinetic things that break"
> kind of way).....
> 
> I'd love to see and hear what you thought made a space work well.
> (Not terribly interested in rehashing the thousands of "Don't do what so-
> and-so did - worst theatre ever" stories... we all have those stories, and have
> all worked in those spaces. Particularly interested in the "They did this right"
> or "This was clever/successful" stories.)
> 
>  - Jon
> 
> 
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