Theater
Isaac Theatre Royal
Edwardian playhouse with an ornate facade and a painted Shakespearean dome over the auditorium.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch starts with the numbers that refuse to agree, from seat counts to the year the first Theatre Royal opened on Gloucester Street. It then turns to the people who made the house, from the Luttrell brothers who designed it in the Edwardian era to a Wellington ceiling painter and the Shakespeare scenes above the stalls. Best heard from a seat where you can see both the dome and the stage boxes.
This audio guide was created using AI.