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February 03, 2005
Theatre Royal
Glasgow City Council is considering handing over the Theatre Royal to a commercial company to lessen Scottish Opera’s liabilities.
It’s good to run theatres and performing arts companies seperately. Theatre managements can concentrate on running the venue as efficently as possible, while leaving the performers to concentrate on performing. The latter can be flexible and rent venues as appropriate. (This is a system I am familiar with in Japan, where no company owns any venue.)
However we are not going to see a long-term solution to the problems of Scottish Opera and the Edinburgh Festival without a new, well-designed, fully-equipped, multi-purpose, 1,800 to 2,000 seat theatre, (price tag 80 to 100 million pounds). Such a building could be a national institution, rather like a museum or art gallery, vested with a responsibility for encouraging the performing arts and its own budget.
thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=122612005
Posted by Simon Holledge at February 3, 2005 12:37 AM
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