Roundabout

Roundabout is our tourable, in-the-round, 167-seater auditorium.

Since 2014, we’ve pitched up all over the country, from the Summerhall Courtyard during the Edinburgh Fringe, to a football pitch in Coventry, on Margate seafront, by a lake in Poole Park, in Doncaster market square, on campus in Lincoln.

We built Roundabout because we’re passionate about new plays and we want as many people as possible to be able to see them.

Roundabout is completely self-contained with state-of-the-art LED lighting and surround sound.

There are no visible conventional lighting units or speakers in Roundabout. The theatre uses ‘plug and play’ technology. The lighting facilities consist of 627 individual LED light fittings – a mixture of colour mixing and tuneable white – installed in the roof of the theatre. This pixelated lighting has the ability to project images.

It took us four years of inventing, designing, head-scratching, fundraising, sanity-checking, coercing and testing to get from initial idea to launch in 2014.

Roundabout was designed by Lucy Osborne and Emma Chapman in collaboration with Charcoalblue and Howard Eaton.
It was built and developed by Factory Settings.