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Avery Associates Architects
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George Bernard Shaw was a major benefactor of RADA and the GBS
theatre was thus named in his honour. It was originally a mini proscenium
theatre with a raking floor, orchestra pit, balcony and fly tower.
However such was its importance to the history and character of RADA
that it was retained when the rest of the building was demolished and
was subsequently converted into a flat-floor studio theatre with two
'teaching size' control rooms. It remains one of the gems of the new
Academy, its fair face brickwork aesthetic having a resonance both with
the past and the materiality of 'found' spaces.
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