Summerhall is blessed with a fantastic venue home: the buildings of the former Royal Dick Veterinary School, a long-standing institution of worldwide renown, part of the University of Edinburgh.
Occupying a 95-year-old, purpose-built vet school gives us access to some unique and spectacular spaces. Accordingly, we are not trying to create a venue complex of homogenised black boxes, but rather work with this special place to celebrate the building as we find it (some additional signage excepted). Come to Summerhall and explore…
a grand classical hall; gone are the numerous oil paintings of breeds of cow, but the elegance remains in this, our main theatre space
a beautiful, small, hemispherical lecture theatre entirely made of wood
you have never been into a space like our bar… this huge L-shaped room with greenhouse windows, cabinets all round the walls, and a wrought iron balcony on two sides, has to be seen to be believed.