Travelling Show Stage
A unique vintage travelling show stage, custom built into a twin axle trailer, complete with all facilities for use by enterprising individual, partnership, group or organisation.
The Theatre Royal is a work of art created by several artists and a handful of engineers, originally commissioned by Mr Alexander’s Travelling Show, who has been touring with it for thirty-five years. Now it is available to the right party or parties as a going concern. Full training in setting up and striking will be given to the successful buyer and there will be ongoing ‘customer support’ available following the sale.
The Theatre Royal has an illustrious history. The original Theatre Royal stage was built into a Sunblest bread lorry, originally bought and converted into a stage vehicle in the sixties by a one hit wonder band - Billy Boy Brown and the Circus. The Victorian-style proscenium arch theatre stage was designed and built by the current owner in 1985, and painted by scenic designer and artist Anne Needham. The unit was toured until 2010 when a bespoke specialist exhibition trailer was designed and built to house the rig. The outside of the trailer (painted to look like the outside of the theatre) was designed and painted by Tony Lewery, the well-known theatre designer and long boat painter. The stage floor and some of the trailer exterior has since been re-imagined by visual artist Rob Symington. More recently, Rob has added the boisterous orchestra. There is a backcloth designed and made by artist Liz Ellis, painted on gauze; a couple dance under the full moon.
In 2018 a hydraulic levelling system was added to the trailer to facilitate the set up. The set up (and strike) is approximately a three hour job for one man, but with two trained people it can be done in just over an hour. The trailer weight is just over 2 tonnes and is a twin axle unit with a 50mm ball tow bar which is plate rated to 2.5 tonnes, but that includes theatre props. There is plenty of space inside the trailer for prop storage. Everything has been annually serviced.
The stage is a large scale copy of the Victorian Pollock’s toy theatre (‘Penny plain and twopence coloured’) still marketed in Covent Garden today. The painted characters in the theatre boxes either side have been re-imagined but the proportions of the whole remain faithful to the original toy.
The stage is not personalised to its current owner. It has a painted poster on the outside back wall by the painted stage door that advertises his show, but the stage itself is unbranded. The theatre name is painted on the road side of the trailer – ‘Theatre Royal’, where there is ample space for new painted posters.
Queen Victoria (Rita, from Ilfracombe) sanctioned the use of the ‘Royal’ terminology when she knighted Mr Alexander in 2001 at Havenstreet, IOW.
Could be delivered anywhere in UK.
A unique vintage travelling show stage, custom built into a twin axle trailer, complete with all facilities for use by enterprising individual, partnership, group or organisation.
The Theatre Royal is a work of art created by several artists and a handful of engineers, originally commissioned by Mr Alexander’s Travelling Show, who has been touring with it for thirty-five years. Now it is available to the right party or parties as a going concern. Full training in setting up and striking will be given to the successful buyer and there will be ongoing ‘customer support’ available following the sale.
The Theatre Royal has an illustrious history. The original Theatre Royal stage was built into a Sunblest bread lorry, originally bought and converted into a stage vehicle in the sixties by a one hit wonder band - Billy Boy Brown and the Circus. The Victorian-style proscenium arch theatre stage was designed and built by the current owner in 1985, and painted by scenic designer and artist Anne Needham. The unit was toured until 2010 when a bespoke specialist exhibition trailer was designed and built to house the rig. The outside of the trailer (painted to look like the outside of the theatre) was designed and painted by Tony Lewery, the well-known theatre designer and long boat painter. The stage floor and some of the trailer exterior has since been re-imagined by visual artist Rob Symington. More recently, Rob has added the boisterous orchestra. There is a backcloth designed and made by artist Liz Ellis, painted on gauze; a couple dance under the full moon.
In 2018 a hydraulic levelling system was added to the trailer to facilitate the set up. The set up (and strike) is approximately a three hour job for one man, but with two trained people it can be done in just over an hour. The trailer weight is just over 2 tonnes and is a twin axle unit with a 50mm ball tow bar which is plate rated to 2.5 tonnes, but that includes theatre props. There is plenty of space inside the trailer for prop storage. Everything has been annually serviced.
The stage is a large scale copy of the Victorian Pollock’s toy theatre (‘Penny plain and twopence coloured’) still marketed in Covent Garden today. The painted characters in the theatre boxes either side have been re-imagined but the proportions of the whole remain faithful to the original toy.
The stage is not personalised to its current owner. It has a painted poster on the outside back wall by the painted stage door that advertises his show, but the stage itself is unbranded. The theatre name is painted on the road side of the trailer – ‘Theatre Royal’, where there is ample space for new painted posters.
Queen Victoria (Rita, from Ilfracombe) sanctioned the use of the ‘Royal’ terminology when she knighted Mr Alexander in 2001 at Havenstreet, IOW.
Could be delivered anywhere in UK.
A unique vintage travelling show stage, custom built into a twin axle trailer, complete with all facilities for use by enterprising individual, partnership, group or organisation.
The Theatre Royal is a work of art created by several artists and a handful of engineers, originally commissioned by Mr Alexander’s Travelling Show, who has been touring with it for thirty-five years. Now it is available to the right party or parties as a going concern. Full training in setting up and striking will be given to the successful buyer and there will be ongoing ‘customer support’ available following the sale.
The Theatre Royal has an illustrious history. The original Theatre Royal stage was built into a Sunblest bread lorry, originally bought and converted into a stage vehicle in the sixties by a one hit wonder band - Billy Boy Brown and the Circus. The Victorian-style proscenium arch theatre stage was designed and built by the current owner in 1985, and painted by scenic designer and artist Anne Needham. The unit was toured until 2010 when a bespoke specialist exhibition trailer was designed and built to house the rig. The outside of the trailer (painted to look like the outside of the theatre) was designed and painted by Tony Lewery, the well-known theatre designer and long boat painter. The stage floor and some of the trailer exterior has since been re-imagined by visual artist Rob Symington. More recently, Rob has added the boisterous orchestra. There is a backcloth designed and made by artist Liz Ellis, painted on gauze; a couple dance under the full moon.
In 2018 a hydraulic levelling system was added to the trailer to facilitate the set up. The set up (and strike) is approximately a three hour job for one man, but with two trained people it can be done in just over an hour. The trailer weight is just over 2 tonnes and is a twin axle unit with a 50mm ball tow bar which is plate rated to 2.5 tonnes, but that includes theatre props. There is plenty of space inside the trailer for prop storage. Everything has been annually serviced.
The stage is a large scale copy of the Victorian Pollock’s toy theatre (‘Penny plain and twopence coloured’) still marketed in Covent Garden today. The painted characters in the theatre boxes either side have been re-imagined but the proportions of the whole remain faithful to the original toy.
The stage is not personalised to its current owner. It has a painted poster on the outside back wall by the painted stage door that advertises his show, but the stage itself is unbranded. The theatre name is painted on the road side of the trailer – ‘Theatre Royal’, where there is ample space for new painted posters.
Queen Victoria (Rita, from Ilfracombe) sanctioned the use of the ‘Royal’ terminology when she knighted Mr Alexander in 2001 at Havenstreet, IOW.
Could be delivered anywhere in UK.
The following items are included in the sale:
· Peavey 200 watt digital amplifier
· DAF speakers and stands
· Powered Leisure stage speaker with two hand held radio mics
· Samson 6 way mixer