Sunday, August 31, 2008

New Outdoor Theatre, Esplanade Park

Spending S$6m to enhance its outdoor theatre and waterfront, this new Outdoor Theatre at the Esplanade Park finally opens in August '08 and greets me with a look of a leisure yacht with 3 white sails. It is gracefully architectured.

The redeveloped theatre’s completed space is larger and more weather-resistant than the old structure. It now comprise a new performance stage 2.5 times the size of the original stage and an audience capacity of 1,000, double that of before.

With its equipment of an in-built sound console and rigs for lighting, it will no doubt be better able to accommodate a variety of genres which can include theatre and dance.

Am looking very much forward to catching some performances here, at this beautiful staging that provides both local and overseas bands a platform on which they can be profiled; also creating Arts scene awareness here.

I then retired to the library at the 3rd floor of Esplanade, our country’s first “themed” library devoted to music, dance, theater, and film.

It's bliss to sit, reading by the glass curtain walling here, in the comfort of gently blowing air-condition while basking in the morning sun - in full view of the bay. Background soft piano music playing from the nearby acoustic practice room.

How can a perfect setting be far from this? A super relaxing mood all set for my Sunday :)

I certainly hope this library would not face the fate of closing down like what happened to their Orchard branch. i love it here.

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