Brighton Open Air Theatre, also known as B•O•A•T, is a British theatre built in Dyke Road Park, Brighton, which opened on 9 May 2015. It has been paid for not by corporate funding or public grants, but by private donations. The theatre is the legacy of the Brighton showman and construction manager, Adrian Bunting, who died of pancreatic cancer, aged 47, in May 2013.
The theatre's radical design, conceived by Bunting, has a long thrust stage, which brings the actors out into the audience space. This has inspired the design of more recent open air theatres, including the Downlands School Theatre in Hassocks[1] and the Thorington Theatre at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk.[2]
In 2016, the Tatler placed the theatre in its list of the UK's six best outdoor theatres,[3] while the Guardian included it in the 'Top 10 outdoor cinema and theatre events in the UK'.[4] In 2017, the Brighton Open Air Theatre was number three in Curtain Call's list of the world's ten best outdoor theatres, after Shakespeare's Globe and Epidaurus.[5] In 2019, B•O•A•T was number two in the Guardian's list of '10 great UK open-air theatres you can visit on public transport'[6]
^'This is what Hassocks' open air theatre could look like', Sussex World, 25 October 2018
^Thorrington Theatre website
^Emma Beaumont, 'The UK's Best Outdoor Theatres', The Tatler, 13 May 2016
^Joanna Mason and Will Coldwell, 'Top 10 outdoor cinema and theatre events in the UK ', The Guardian, 9 July 2015
^Curtain Call, 'Ten of the Best: Outdoor Theatres'6 June 2017
^Dixe Wills, '10 great UK open-air theatres you can visit on public transport', The Guardian, 6 August 2019
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