ABTT announce third leg of British tour of Guthrie Thrust Stage exhibition

8th March 2012

The Association of British Theatre Technicians is delighted to announce the British tour of The Guthrie Thrust Stage 1948 – 2011: A Living Legacy exhibition, created earlier this year for the Prague 2011 Quadrennial of Scenography and Theatre Architecture.

17 March to late July 2012, the Victoria & Albert Museum London will host the exhibition, where it forms part of the SBTD Transformation and Revelation: UK Design for Performance 2007 – 2011. This introduces a stage and theatre design display to the larger theme Celebrating British Design 1948 – 2012 which has the same start date as The Guthrie Thrust Stage 1948 – 2011: a Living Legacy.

The exhibition celebrates the unique contribution of the Thrust Stage to world theatre architecture by director Tyrone Guthrie (1900- 1971). This recast the theatre experience and successfully released the actor from the confines of the proscenium arch. The story starts at The Assembly Hall Edinburgh, at the 1948 Festival, with Guthrie’s spectacular recreation of the medieval morality Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaites. It is brought up to date with this year’s opening at Stratford-upon-Avon of the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre, which can trace its pedigree back to Guthrie.

Source: ABTT Press Release