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General Category => Chesterfield Discussion => Topic started by: Stuart on November 06, 2013, 06:43:38 PM
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The BBC's recent documentary "When Coal was King" includes footage of a play being performed at the Civic during the 1950s. Apart from the obvious paint job, nothing has changed!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03gtg7g/Timeshift_Series_13_When_Coal_Was_King/ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03gtg7g/Timeshift_Series_13_When_Coal_Was_King/)
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Just watched it.
Exactly which bit was repainted? ;)
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Well, yes! The auditorium was a creamy colour, but these were the days when the had four lights front of house, so you needed all the reflective help you could get. When they interview the playwright there are seats behind him with wooden beading along the tops; we still have these in the circle. What the short clip did for me was to emphasise how little has been spent on the place's development over the years, and how well successive groups of employees have done to stop it falling down.
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The perils I guess of being in a listed building.
If not you could knock it down and build a new theatre on the Annexe.
Mind you there would probably have to be 75% usage by the Arts College ( do we still HAVE an Arts College?)
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You're a very naughty man, Jon....
:))
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If not you could knock it down and build a new theatre on the Annexe.
We could do "Starlight Express" round the track.
There will be a track??
;D