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Since high school, for my own amusement I've drawn pencil sketches of plans, playing with the challenge of working out the geometry.  Here is one category:  theatres and auditoriums that will never be built.

Below is a balcony-level plan of a theatre vaguely reminiscent of Shakespeare's Globe.

It was inspired by the lobby of the Newhouse One journalism building at Syracuse University, which has just this sort of monumental double staircase leading to its second floor.  (The building was designed by I.M. Pei.  Note the sculpture at the top of the wall in this photo from the Syracuse University Alumni News, spring 1970.)

I simply redrew the space as a squashed pentagon with two rows of seats overlooking the balcony rail.  Most of the audience would be on the level below, in "the pit" surrounding the foot of the staircase.  As indicated by the green arrows, actors could make their entrances from any of five doors, or they could speak from the sculpture's location.