The Other Place (theatre)

[1] Converted from a rehearsal room, and directed initially by Buzz Goodbody,[2] this corrugated ‘tin hut’ became home to some of the company's most exciting small-scale and experimental work both in classical productions and in productions of work from contemporary writers such as David Edgar, Edward Bond and Peter Flannery.

[3] The Guardian's journalist Andrew Dickson would later note,[4] In April 1975, a production of Hamlet opened at The Other Place, the Royal Shakespeare Company's pocket-sized studio theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

The Other Place was closed in 1989 for two years of rebuilding and was replaced with a more modern building, designed by Ian Ritchie Architects and opening in 1991.

[5] The new building later closed and was transformed into a foyer for the RSC's temporary Courtyard Theatre which was built on the adjacent car-park to house performances in Stratford-upon-Avon whilst the RSC's main houses, the Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres, were redeveloped as part of the Transformation project.

[9] The Other Place is a 200-seat studio theatre with a remodelled internal space to create a new-style, mixed use TOP which will provide opportunities for community, amateur and educational use.

[10] The redevelopment of the new TOP began in February 2015 and the theatre opened on 21 March 2016, in time for the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death.

Site of the 1990 The Other Place (blue building) temporarily acted as the entrance to the Courtyard Theatre , whose stage, back-stage and auditorium were in the brown corrugated box to the right.