Getting afloat
This week, the theatre built on the site of the Raymond Revuebar highlights the contrast between the new corporate face of Soho and some of its more risqu茅 history.
好色先生TV doesn鈥檛 seem to have spent a lot of time in Soho over the past 175 years 鈥� at least, not officially 鈥� so we decided to look back at an unusual theatre project in another part of the capital.
>> Projects: Walker鈥檚 Court, Soho
The temporary 100-seat Jellyfish theatre was under construction on the South Bank and it was rubbish. Literally, rubbish. The venue was to be built by volunteers out of: 鈥淢aterials that are deemed useless and thrown out. Board offcuts 鈥� rickety tables, freight pallets, old theatre sets, empty plastic water-cooler bottles 鈥︹��
鈥淭his project reverses the normal processes of our economy,鈥� said designer Martin Kaltwasser. 鈥淗ere we are turning waste into functional products. We take something worthless and make something of worth out of it.鈥�
Such an unconventional project had some choppy waters to navigate 鈥� it was only given provisional planning permission until completed 鈥� but surfaced to open in autumn 2010.
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