Copyright © 2023 by Wendy Waszut-Barrett
Stage door at the Theatre Royal Glasgow.
The front facade, Theatre Royal Glasgow.
Theatre Royal Glasgow, 282 Hope Street.
Mike Hume, Rick Boychuk, and I took the train from Newcastle upon Tyne, England, to Glasgow, Scotland, on Sept. 15. We were scheduled to meet up with Megumi (scenic art tutor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and visit three theaters. Alan Butland also traveled up from Newcastle to spend time with us on our adventure.
Megumi in front of Wallace Studios, Royal Conservatoire Scotland. We first met at a CITT (Canadian Institute of Theatre Technology) scene painting workshop (2018, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada).
For our Glasgow visit, Mike scheduled tours at the Theatre Royal, King’s Theatre, and the Citizen’s Theatre (the Citz). Our visit to both the Theatre Royal Glasgow and the King’s Theatre was facilitated by Gary Painter of UK’s Cinema Theatre Association. He could not have been more accommodating or kind!
Gary and Mike at the stage door, Theatre Royal Glasgow.
When all was said and done, we visited seven theaters before hopping a train for Edinburgh that evening.
Our first stop was the Theatre Royal Glasgow.
Auditorium at the Theatre Royal Glasgow.
Ornamental details on the ceiling.
Ornamental details on the boxes.
More Ornamental details with light.
View from the gallery.
Illuminated lettering for aisles.
View from an opera box.
View from the boxes..
Another view of the auditorium.
Backstage at the Theatre Royal Glasgow.
Backstage at the Theatre Royal Glasgow.
Megumi cossing the bridge backstage.
Upstage crossover against the back wall.
The Safety Curtain, Theatre Royal Glasgow.
The safety curtain, Theatre Royal Glasgow.
Detail of safety curtain.
Backside of the safety curtain.
Backside of the safety curtain.
For more information about the Theatre Royal Glasgow, please visit Hume’s website. He did a lovely write-up about the history of the venue. Here is the link: https://www.historictheatrephotos.com/Theatre/Theatre-Royal-Glasgow.aspx
Mike Hume in action at the Theatre Royal Glasgow. Hume’s theatre photography is not only beautiful, but also informative.
None of our theater visits would have been possible without Hume’s previous visits to the venues, and various relationships that he has cultivated over the years. Thank you again, Mike!
Here are a few of my photographs from our visit on Sept. 13, 2023.
Here is also the link to the Theatre Royal Glasgow’s website:
To be continued…
God I would have loved to come along. Unfortunately I doubt my knees would have allowed me to keep up with the walking and the incredible steep stairs in the old auditoriums. I marvel there weren’t multitudes of fatalities in the audience portion of the theatres!