Theatres
February 27, 2010
After spending four hours on a 5 minute presentation i decide to create a blog post.
I will be exploring social class through theatre seating and how the audience pay different prices for different seats.
I want to photograph empty theatre seating usually full of an excited audience and the different levels seen within a theatre which decides how much you pay for a ticket to see a show. Through this I want to explore whether social class is still around in modern society today compared to the victorian era. Most levels in each theatre range from two to four levels, these include the stalls, circle, upper circle and grand tier, some theatres also have choir seating and boxes. Depending on the show you will go and see most theatres charge different rates for different level seating the most expensive is either the stalls or the boxes and the least expensive is the upper circle or the grand tier.
I want to capture a wide range of theatres to photograph from the 19th century theatres up to the modern theatres today around south Wales and the Midlands and compare the theatre seating to explore whether there is a difference in seating when you go and watch a show or if the audience are all paying for the same type of seating.
The photographs will be created using a 5×4 large format camera using colour film. They will include a mass amount of empty seating which create many different patterns depending on the angle of the photograph and in some you will see levels of the theatre and others the frame will be full of empty seats. Along with the photographs I also want to include the seating plans of the theatres to emphasise the social class and how we all pay different prices for different seats within a theatre.
