Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre

The project accommodates a 250 seat auditorium, with a rehearsal room, doubling as an exhibition space, a green room, changing rooms for artists, a small catering facility with cafe/bar and offices.



The Gothic exterior facade remains virtually untouched, while the side elevation was completely removed and substituted by a completely new transparent entrance elevation displaying the theatre within. This new facade gives the development an external presence, rather than hiding the theatre in the shell of the historic building, creating an understandable, developing history.

The auditorium box is externally clad in ply and emerges in the foyer and on circulation. Internally the theatre sits at first floor and is broadly proscenium with a degree of flexibility.

The route to the theatre is visible through the facade and a freestanding, canopied drum houses the escape stairs with large doors which open onto a platform lift.