Short film screening with talk by Dr Alistair Fair
Thursday, 07 November, in Edinburgh and online
This event will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the transformation of Edinburgh’s old Empire Palace Theatre into the Festival Theatre. Dr Alistair Fair will briefly outline abandoned post-war plans to build a new theatre (the ‘opera house’) before introducing a short film, recorded in 2019, in which he interviews the architect Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith and theatre consultant Iain Mackintosh discussing the Festival Theatre project.
This event will be in person and streamed online. The venue has barrier-free access by lift. Tickets cost £7 / concession £5 / Docomomo members £3 in advance. You can buy tickets at TicketTailor buy tickets at TicketTailor.
Dr Alistair Fair is a Reader in Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. He is a historian of architecture in Britain between 1918 and the 1990s who is interested in the relationships between architecture and wider themes in social, urban, and political history, with particular interests and expertise in the history of theatres, hospitals, universities and new towns.
Image – Festival Theatre – photo Alistair Fair
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