BAM will refurbish the RSC’s studio theatre, The Other Place as part of a wider transformation project that saw the Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres re-open in November 2010.
The contractor will remodel the internal space of the temporary Courtyard Theatre, the original site of the 1974 The Other Place, to create a festival venue for RSC productions and a space for rehearsals and training.
As part of the project there will be a new storage facility to house 30,000 costumes from the RSC’s Costume Store, which will be available for public viewing for the first time, via theatre tours.
RSC project manager Simon Harper said that BAM had significantly undercut the competition: “BAM were selected from our tender list as they were by far the most economically attractive, for their structured approach, their good systems management, their understanding of local issues and a good balanced team.”
BAM starts on site this month, with completion before the end of the year, ahead of events in 2016 to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
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