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Shakespeare & Company, Tina Packer Playhouse

Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
Peter Mauss/Esto

The summer home for Boston’s Shakespeare & Company, this 450-seat theatre was built entirely within a Quonset hut and fashioned after London’s famous Tricycle Theatre.

The two seating levels are constructed of scaffolding with canvas balcony fronts laced to the scaffold framework. These galleries continue around to the back of the stage area and can be demounted so that the stage can be reconfigured to a thrust. The flooring on the upper level is made of standard aluminum planks with special devices to dampen flexing and creaking.

Peter Mauss/Esto
owner:
Shakespeare & Company
architect:
Payette
acoustician:
Acoustic Dimensions
users:
Shakespeare & Company
spaces:
  • 450-seat drama theatre
construction type:
Adaptive reuse
theatre type:
Auditorium design/seating, Concept design, Drama theatres
services:
Concept design, theatre planning, and theatre equipment design and specification
completion:
2001
Peter Mauss/Esto
Peter Mauss/Esto
Peter Mauss/Esto
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