Theatre and Architecture

Juliet Rufford quotes in her book, “For Copeau, architecture is the most fundamental and consistently overlooked aspect of the theatre.” (Rufford, 2015, 2).

Until the Site-specific session on Wednesday the 28th January, I would have never linked buildings with theatre, except from the idea of space and where you are performing. This session and reading has inspired me to look at buildings as performers themselves. The library is filled with layers of context, history, memories and double meanings, not only being a place of work for academics, but also for the industrial and manual work that happened there years before. This concept and notion of a performing place has inspired me to think of all other buildings and what they mean or what they could be performing to the people who enter it. Therefore, I couldn’t agree more than with the statement above as it has made me see the University Library with open eyes and an equally open mind.

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