Infromation on Allied Ars Centre

[David Ferry]

I performed in both Frances  Hyland's production of "Playboy of the Western World" and Jean Gascon's "Elephant Man" there. The stage was a traditional proscenium arch with an auditorium that I think sat about 450 raked up from the stage. It had flies. The acoustics were ok .

Backstage was sufficient with dressing rooms downstairs. I would say the stage was at least 35 feet wide and 30 feet deep

That is all from fuzzy memory, sorry. I have memories particularly from Playboy of having a good piece of real estate to move on...wing space where I did quick changes. Space enough behind the set that the townspeople could all congregate there before the scene where I was (as Christy) trussed up ready to be marked by Pegeen with a hot poker.

And from Elephant Man significant dressing room space.

I think the offices where in the same building..but not sure.

Daf

David Ferry
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> On Mar 30, 2015, at 1:17 AM, Wes Pearce <Wes.Pearce at UREGINA.CA> wrote:
> 
> I hope everyone is surviving the semester!
> 
> I am wondering if  anyone has information about the space that used to be home to Theatre Calgary.  A sense of how big the Allied Arts Centre/QR Centre was?  Both in terms of performance space, audience space and how intimate was the theatre?  I'm assuming it was smaller than the current space but I'm most interested in the relationship of audience and stage but also how big the stage was?
> 
> Wes D. Pearce, Professor
> Associate Dean (Undergraduate) 
> Faculty of Fine Arts
> University of Regina
> S4S 0A2
> 306 585 5571
>  
> 
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