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Wed 03 Mar 2007Overhaul of Abbey seating takes centre stageThe inside of the Abbey Theatre's main auditorium has been demolished. There were holes in the floor yesterday where the seats had been ripped out, the interior structure of the balcony was rudely exposed and there were metal frames all over the place. On the plus side, this was all good news.The public seating area of the national theatre's auditorium is being overhauled in a radical €730,000 plan to give the audience better "sight lines" of the stage and to create a better connection between audience and actors. However, it will also involve the loss of up to 136 seats.