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Arts venue unveils £90m revamp From the BBC website
The Royal Festival Hall will be given a whole new look
Plans for a £90m refurbishment of London's Royal Festival Hall have been unveiled, with the news that £73m of the total sum
has been raised so far.
The total has been boosted by a £5m donation from the Clore Duffield Foundation, headed by Selfridges heiress Dame Vivien
Duffield.
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Is it me or are theatres getting smaller? By Duncan Walker for BBC News Online Magazine
Theatres are getting increasingly cramped, with less leg room and the bodies of audience members squashed closer together.
Why?
A trip to the theatre these days is more likely than ever to find you shifting uncomfortably in your seat for space.
But while customers may be tempted to blame the architects or penny-pinching owners for their discomfort, the cause of the
problem lies elsewhere.
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