In June, we reported how banqueting furniture can double as cinema-style seating for 'event cinema' screenings, in which venues that are not traditionally used for the showing of films create spaces suitable for an audience, complete with a projector and big screen.
While this is not yet a common feature of many people's social lives, it is growing in popularity, and banqueting furniture brings the style and elegance of cinema-style seating with the convenience of being lightweight and stackable.
But venues that lack the infrastructure to set up a screen and projector - or who want to host their event outdoors in their gardens, for instance - might prefer to take the live-performance route, and create theatre events, rather than cinema events.
Already, many people are familiar with this approach, with Shakespeare in the Park events recognisable to most Brits after several years of being staged nationwide.
Recent figures from OnePoll indicate that open-air theatre performances could cater for many people's main reasons for attending a show, without the need for an actual theatre at all.
While some people might go to see a play in order to experience the opulent surroundings and generally ornate architecture of the theatre, many people simply want to socialise with their friends.
Three in ten young people surveyed said socialising is their main reason for going to the theatre, while two thirds of over-55s go to see the show itself - and not the building in which it is performed.
An eighth of people go because of who has been cast for the show, and 9% simply want to raise their general cultural awareness - and almost half of all those surveyed buy an interval drink, making a potentially lucrative market for pubs and bars with a space suitable for a performance.
Taken together, none of these reasons for attending the theatre are intrinsically linked to the building itself, but are associated with more general aims and ambitions linked with the show, the facilities on offer, or simply to spending time with friends.
As such, a well-advertised show could theoretically be staged anywhere and be equally successful, with stackable banqueting furniture offering a good way to create a theatre-like system of rows of seating, even in the open air.