Mull Theatre building is go

Argyll’s Mull Theatre, one of Scotland’s busiest touring companies, now sees its new production centre at Druimfin completed.

This will be where the company will prepare each of their touring shows. As a fully equipped and technologically up-to-the-minute  establishment, it has also been designed to be hired as a production facility to other theatre and performance companies.

The National Theatre of Scotland, for example, has been conceived of much as Sir Humphrey memorably briefed Jim Hacker in Yes, Prime Minister. It does not have its own theatre. It is a creative focus not a physical one. Like Mull Theatre, it tours all the time. The new production centre at Druimfin will support such companies by making available a first class, purpose-built workplace in what is effectively a retreat.

The new building will therefore give Mull Theatre themselves the best possible base to work from  and, when they are on the road, it has the capacity to earn them money on hire to other companies.

In announcing the completion of the building, Tony Cox, Associaite Director of Mull Theatre, gave particular praise to the work of the company’s project managers for the build, Hardies Property and Construction. The budget for the project has been very tight from the start and rising inflation in the local construction industry has tightened it almost to choking point. But Mr Cox described Hardies as having worked to ‘squeeze every last drop of value’ from the contract.

Argyll will be looking forward to the touring productions emerging from this new base, securing a well loved company’s future.