Swan Theatre (Stratford)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, from across the river Avon. The roof of The Swan can be seen in the left of the picture.
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, from across the river Avon. The roof of The Swan can be seen in the left of the picture.

The Swan Theatre is a theatre belonging to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. It is built onto the side of the larger Royal Shakespeare Theatre, occupying the Victorian Gothic structure that formerly housed the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre that preceded the RST.

The Swan is designed as a modernized Elizabethan theatre. It features a thrust stage and a circular auditorium that echoes the structure of Elizabethan theatres, but it is indoors, has comfortable seating, and features modern lighting and sound technology.

The Swan was opened in 1986 and was originally intended as a space for the performance of Elizabethan drama, but it has subsequently been used for many other types of theatre including the works of Chekhov, Ibsen and Tennessee Williams.

This article about a specific theater is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../s/w/a/Swan_Theatre_%28Stratford%29_d1a9.html"
In other languages