Christchurch's Court Theatre finds new temporary home

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Christchurch's Court Theatre devastated by February's earthquake has found a temporary new home - an old grain store in the suburb of Addington.

Digital Photograph: Temporary Theatre, London Street, Lyttelton

Images, Canterbury Museum

One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 6 September 2011 showing the temporary theatre erected on the site of the Volcano Café on London Street for a production of Macbeth by The Loons Circus Theatre Company. The green canopy supported on shipping containers was used to shelter the audience. The stage area was the demolition site partia...

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Images, UC QuakeStudies

Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Part of the makeshift theatre on the site of the demolished Volcano Cafe in London Street, Lyttelton".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking out onto the 'stage' of the makeshift theatre in London Street, Lyttelton".

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The inside of a tent set up in the Arts car park at the University of Canterbury after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The tents were used as temporary lecture rooms while the buildings were being checked for damage.

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A photograph of a projector set up in the Avonhead Baptist Church. The room is to be used as a temporary lecture theatre for the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, as lecture theatres on campus are inaccessible following the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

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One of the tents set up in the Fine Arts car park at the University of Canterbury, used for teaching while lecture theatres were closed for structural testing. The photographer comments, "Temporary lecture tents".

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A photographs of members of a China Urban Search and Rescue team on Worcester Street near the Christchurch Art Gallery. The art gallery served as the temporary headquarters for Civil Defence after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. In the background, the earthquake damage to the dome of the Regent Theatre can be seen.