Egg Theatre
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The Egg is a new theatre for children, young people and their families, designed for the Theatre Royal Bath
The playful and intimate space, created within a Grade II listed Victorian building used latterly as a cinema, has been designed in response to a brief drawn up by a group of twenty 9-18 year olds, ensuring that it meets the needs of the very people it is intended to serve.
Located next to the existing theatre, the building houses an 'egg'-shaped auditorium, around which an arts cafe, rooftop rehearsal space and basement technical workshop are arranged. The scheme employs an innovative structural solution to insert a tightly fitting elliptical 120 seat auditorium into the rectangular shell of crumbling bath stone.
The original Bath stone skin of the building forms an important base ingredient in the scheme, against which a palette of brightly-coloured and textured contemporary materials play, such as padded upholstery felt and corrugated red plastic sheeting.
Data
- Begun: May 2004
- Completed: 2006
- Floor area: 854m2
- Sector: Arts and culture
- Total cost: £2.3M
- Tender date: Mar 2004
- Procurement: JCT 98 without quantities
- Address: Theatre Royal Bath, Sawclose, Bath, BA1 1ET, United Kingdom
Professional Team
- Architect: Haworth Tompkins
- Client: Theatre Royal Bath
- Client representative: Bishopston
- Structural engineer: Fulcrum Consulting/ WW
- Services engineer: Fulcrum Consulting/ WW
- Quantity surveyor: Fulcrum Consulting/ WW
- Theatre consultant: Anne Minors Performance Consultants
- Acoustic consultant: Fleming and Barron
- Planning supervisor: Fulcrum Consulting/ WW
- Access consultant: Fulcrum Consulting/ WW
- Lighting consultant: Patrick Woodroffe Lighting Design
- Main contractor: Emerys of Bath
Suppliers
- Theatre technical: Stage Electrics
- Theatre seats and staging: Steeldeck
- Structural steelwork: Robbin Engineering
- Mechanical and Electrical subcontractor : Stourtons
- Sprung floor: CDM