Theatre and Architecture in Palma
Keywords:
theatre mapping, typology, theatre architecture, history, urban planning, architecture, performance space, Palma, MallorcaAbstract
The study of the place of theatre in Palma is research that shows its existing,
closed and vanished venues throughout the history of the city. It is a
preliminary and ongoing inventory covering 98 performance spaces, some
deliberately ostentatious but most modest. A typological system of leisure
and culture that raises a series of questions: Why were they built? Who are
their agents and what is the nature of their architecture? What is the place
of theatre in Palma?
In this historical and urban journey, the study of the space of theatre becomes
a means to interpret the relationship of architecture with culture over
the centuries. Beyond its architectonic structure, we have started from the theatrical
and performance event, with a broad approach, to select and define the
theatre venues in which architecture and scenography are seen as the meeting
point, at the same time and in the same place, of actors and audience.
