This little theatre was the third annual Architecture Foundation Antepavilion commission. Self-built, it provided valuable construction experience for architecture students and volunteers. The timber-frame structure is dressed with a painted canvas lining, its colours harmonising with the surrounding trees and canal. The composition and arrangement of windows and stairways is a reimagination of Monsieur Hulot’s house in Jacques Tati’s 1958 film Mon Oncle. The other side of the structure is left open, revealing the interior and thinness of the canvas frontage. The frame has four different platform levels connected by a stairway and ladder. The project uses cheap, readily available materials that are natural and renewable or easily recycled, including canvas, laminated veneer lumber, spruce plywood and linseed oil paint. The emphasis was on flexibility for a wide range of public events, with a stage orientated out towards the canal and surrounding streets. The temporary theatre hosted 20 different events; talks, discussions and film screenings including Mon Oncle.