FEBRUARY 2008
Update on the THEATRE ROYAL, Bury St Edmunds - article in 'COUNTRY LIFE' magazine
David Ashstead writes in this month's Country Life about the restoration of the Theatre Royal, the sole surviving Regency playhouse in England. Dating from 1819 the theatre spent it's last 80 years as beer store with a brief period of reprieve in the 60's and 70's when an attempt was made to reopen it as a theatre. In 1987 the National Trust took an interest and the theatre re-opened in 2007 following a £5.3 refurbishment.
There is no better way to describe the involvement and role of Luke Hughes and Company in this project than to paraphrase David Ashstead in Country Life:
"... One of the greatest triumphs has been the design of the elegant, continuous seating in the Pit and the new seats in the boxes of the Dress and Upper Circles. Luke Hughes's impossibly slim hardwood seating, with its subtle upholstered surfaces, is a product of 21st century engineering and craftsmanship, yet its form was guided by extensive research into the benches that 18th and 19th century theatregoers endured..."Download the 'Country Life' article .pdf
© Luke Hughes & Company February 2008
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