Women’s standing ovation for new theatre’s toilet plan which provides more facilities for females than males in bid to beat queues
- @sohoplace will be first new-build theatre in London’s West End for 50 years
- It will have more women’s toilets then men’s to counter longer queues
- ‘State-of-the-art’ theatre will have 600 audience seats and opens in the autumn
The first new-build theatre to open in London’s West End for 50 years will have more toilets for women than men.
Unveiled yesterday, the ‘state-of-the-art’ theatre offers more than 600 audience seats with great sightlines – therefore no ‘cheap seats’. And the arts space, named @sohoplace, hasn’t scrimped on women’s loos either.
The theatre, which will open in the autumn, has been more than a decade in the making and sits in the heart of a £300million regeneration project.
The first new-build theatre to open in London’s West End for 50 years, @sohoplace will have more toilets for women than men
Unveiled yesterday, the ‘state-of-the-art’ theatre offers more than 600 audience seats with great sightlines – therefore no ‘cheap seats’
The theatre’s owner Nica Burns (pictured) said there can never be enough women’s toilets as women simply take longer than men
The theatre, which will open in the autumn, has been more than a decade in the making and sits in the heart of a £300million regeneration project
Female theatregoers often face longer queues at intermission than their male counterparts, with inadequate ladies’ facilities provided. But the theatre’s owner Nica Burns told The Times the building was equipped with ‘more women’s loos than men’s’.
She added: ‘There can never be enough though. The truth is that women simply take longer than men. Men are more nippy. Time motion studies confirm this.’
Miss Burns said she felt ‘overwhelmed’ and ‘emotional’ seeing the finished building, having worked on it for 12 years.
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