Jaime Boldt , left, executive director and principal consultant of the Globe Theatre, and Dean Tanner, project manager with Ledcor Construction, stand in the main theatre during a tour of the construction site of the renovation of the Globe Theatre in Regina on April 4.Work crews removed thousands of kilograms of concrete. They added reinforcements and new features.
Flooring, tiles and fixtures have yet to be added, but patrons can already get a sense of the new space before its scheduled reopening in November. “Maybe you have a show where a witch would melt into the floor or they’d appear up. Imagine a little puff of smoke. Boom! And something comes from below.”
With the theatre-in-the-round concept, shows take place in the middle of the room and seats surround the stage at every angle. Audiences tend to feel closer to the set, and actors must keep moving so spectators don’t only see the back of characters’ heads.
Boldt says the renovation cost was initially budgeted at $29-million but that has since grown to more than $40-million. “We didn’t know what we didn’t know. And who knew there was going to be a pandemic? We were not immune to the supply chain issues and the labour shortages that came along with that,” Boldt says.
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