Regina’s Globe Theatre gets a new coat of paint

You’ll be seeing some serious changes to Regina’s Globe Theatre when it returns this November.

After three years of performing at different locations throughout Regina, the theatre is finally returning home. They’ll be coming back to MacCorquodale Place for the 2024-25 season and they’re looking to put on quite the show for when they do.

Not only are they returning to MacCorquodale Place, they’ll also be doing some renovations there for their grand return.

The goal of the renovations is to give audiences a more comfortable experience that will include wider seats with more leg room and an addition of cup holders.

Not only are the seats getting an upgrade, the wall will be getting a new coat of paint, but maybe not in the way that you’d think.

Harley Sinclair is a modernist artist from Regina and he’s working with the theatre to create his newest art piece.

“It’s a permanent piece, it’s going to be the round from the perspective of being up in the stands and it’ll show spotlights showing onto the stage that will kind of be a theatrical version of a medicine wheel, so there’ll be a red, a yellow and a white spotlight shining on the stage while the house has gone to black,” said Sinclair.

He said that the Globe Theatre really wanted this piece to connect to their audiences.

“They wanted to represent the connection that they have with the community that they represent and who supports them, so they wanted to offer that support back to the people that make up their community and a large percentage of that community that they find their support in is the indigenous peoples of Saskatchewan,” said Sinclair.

The Globe Theatre was founded in 1966 when Canadian Ken Kramer and British-born Sue Richmond Kramer received a $3000 grant from the Sask Arts Board to start a touring company for young audiences.