Project overview

Z-arts Manchester

Location: Manchester

Z-arts is a Theatre and Performance venue based in Hulme, Manchester. The facility has a 230-seat Theatre that hosts a wide variety of events.

With the last refurb taking place over 22 years ago, the venue was eager to improve upon the previous theatre and took advice from esteemed consultants Charcoal Blue in order to help achieve the result they desired.

Hussey Seatway was selected to provide a full refurbishment within the Theatre, including the replacement of all fixed seating and a retractable bleacher seating system. 

They had an old Hussey Maxam system in place already and originally were considering refurbishing that platform.

Solution

We worked tirelessly to ensure that the refurbishment met the client’s expectations through the provision of a new Retractable Seating System that featured a wealth of features including; flexible seating arrangements, dimmable LED lighting to illuminate seatways and aisles, electronic partial opening & new fixed access stairs with storage cupboards underneath to the outer sides of the retractable seating system.

The theatre had decided to take a less formal approach to allocating seats for events than traditional row letters and seat numbers, preferring instead to allocate seat colours that would allow them to concentrate the audience in specific areas for reduced capacity events, an approach that they felt would better suite their young patrons. As you will see from the photos the selected colour scheme has led to a spectacular result.

Having provided Z-arts with our theatre-quality welded space frame Retractable system and Gallery 3 chairs, we are certain that they are well-equipped to continue to provide excellent services and events to the children and families of Manchester for years to come.