An advertisement appeared today on the classified website Kijiji listing 'authentic theatre chairs for sale - ideal for your home theatre!' The Ingersoll Theatre for Performing Arts has 150 seats available as of August 1, when I expect they will be replaced by something more stylish, and comfortable.Before television and the VCR kept us inside our homes, theatres were the social centres of our communities. The Peterborough Museum and Archives recreates the ambiance of an evening at the theatre with their traveling exhibition Voices of the Town: Vaudeville in Canada, currently on display until April 2 at the Spruce Row Museum in Waterford. As the promotion for the exhibit describes, a visit to an opulent vaudeville house was almost as exciting as the performance itself.
Whether it be a movie or a play, the experience is certainly enhanced when it is enjoyed in a vintage theatre in a stiff, old seat. What they lack in foam padding they compensate with history. Maybe your favourite seat in aisle seven is exactly where your granddad sat sixty years before? I know putting 'bums in seats' is essential for making theatres viable, but I prefer that mine doesn't have a cup holder or a head rest!
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