~/d / .. ..* ~ Figure XXIV Adam's Drury Lane, 1775 (isometric by Richard Leacroft). Figure XXV Holland's Drury Lane, 1794 (isometric by Richard Leacroft). this mystery lies the only science.... It is not a matter of saying analytically what are the requirements, how best they can be organized-this will usually bring into existence a tame, conventional often cold hall. the science of theatrebuilding must come from studying what it is that brings about the most vivid relationship between people-and is this best served by asymmetry even by disorder? If so, what can be the rule of this disorder?" This is the question at the center of this debate._ (Footnotes appear on the fol/owing page.) lain Mackintosh is a director of the firm Theatre Projects Consultants ltd., London, who were theatre consultants for Britain's National Theatre amongst many others. He joined the firm in 1973 after the planning of the Olivier and Lyttelton Theatres was complete, but in time to contribute the design study for the Cottesloe Theatre.