The following interview with Joshua Dachs is a segment is taken from the September 30th episode of As It Happens radio broadcast titled “Hard to reconcile.” You can listen to full episode on Apple Podcasts
FDA plans and designs for some of the most innovative, vibrant, and technically super performance spaces and cultural buildings. What you may not have heard so much of, however, is their work on. Cruise ships. Take a listen.
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In this episode, Joshua and Erik lift the curtain on the mysteries of theater design. They discuss how seat layout impacts the way comedy is received, why some roadhouses have “absurd capacities,” and why Broadway theaters are so uncomfortable.
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Editors Rob Weinert-Kendt and Diep Tran are joined by Joshua Dachs, the founder of theatre planning and design firm Fisher Dachs Associates. They discuss the recent controversies around the Public Theater’s Julius Caesar and theatre critic Hedy Weiss, and what each case says about free speech and censorship. Then Dachs talks about his essay about the cyclical history of theatre design, which anchors AT‘s July/Aug. ’17 theme issue about theatre architecture.
