The town of Prescot, near Liverpool, celebrates its links to Shakespeare with a £38m replica theatre.
The 450-seater theatre opens on Friday as part of Knowsley's Borough of Culture celebrations
A journey down Eccleston Street in Prescot takes you past a Jacobean half-timbered frontage; Stone Street, at 71cm wide, Britain's second narrowest street; the Lord Strange pub with its pictures of Shakespeare and ends at a Brazilian waxing salon.The venue also features an outdoor performance garden, exhibition gallery, 60-seater studio theatre, and café
More than 400 years later, this playhouse and the town's links with Shakespeare have inspired the creation of a new theatre that replicates a venue that originally began as a place for Henry VIII to stage cockfights. One proposal was to build in Preston, which was the location of a highly contested theory that part of Shakespeare's "lost years" in his youth were spent in Lancashire.
One of those who has spent 18 years working on the project is Professor Elspeth Graham of Liverpool John Moore's University."Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange, the fifth Earl of Derby, was the patron of an important company of players called Strange's Men," she said.
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