🎭The Minack Theatre, Cornwall Outdoor Theatre by the Cliffs

🏛️ The history of Minack Theatre is not just architecture or beautiful views, but an example of perseverance, determination and practical action by a woman.

She's not an architect, not a millionaire, but she's digging, pushing, lifting and building everything with a love of the performing arts, and turning a nothing cliff into one of the most beautiful theaters in the world.

Minack Theatre (read Minnack Theatre) is a magical outdoor theatre perched on a steep cliff, by the sea in Porthcurno, Cornwall, South West England - a place not built by a government or a big company, but formed from the dreams and efforts of an ordinary woman, who became a British legend.

👩‍🦳 The Woman Who Made: Rowena Cade

• Rowena Cade was born 1893 and moved to Cornwall after World War I.

• She bought land on the cliffs near Porthcurno very cheaply and built her own house.

• Over the decades, Rowena slowly built more - from a flat stage into an ancient Greek stone amphitheater.

• Even during World War II, she resumed renovation immediately after the war.

• Until her death in 1983 (age 89), the theatre remained open and highly regarded.

🎭 The beginning of the theater.

• In 1930, she helped a local amateur group, Mousehole Players, perform Shakespeare's The Tempest.

• She offered to perform outdoors in her backyard, which is on a seaside cliff!

• Then she built the stage empty-handed with the help of a worker named Billy Rawlings.

📌 What makes Minack Theatre so special?

• Located on the edge of a steep cliff, full view of the sea and hearing the waves in the background

• There's a curved stage and a stone amphitheater like an ancient Roman theater.

• Capacity is about 750 people, but all seats see the same ocean view.

• Open for day-night performances, including Shakespeare, musicals, concerts, etc.

🕰️ Present

• Only open summer (April-September) because it is outdoor.

• When there is no show, it is an attraction to visit the stage, see the garden, and read Rowena Cade.

• There is a cafe, souvenir shop and a small exhibition on the history of the theatre.

📚 Shakespeare's play is one of the Minack Theatre's "most popular shows." His work has been shown here regularly since the theatre opened, because it is located on a cliff, sees real seas, real light, real winds, all atmospheres perfectly with Shakespeare's material, especially chapters about magic, the sea, dreams, madness, etc.

• Since the first performance in 1932, it has been Shakespeare's The Tempest.

• And after that, Minack Theatre became a popular venue for staging classic Shakespeare plays, e.g.

• Romeo and Juliet

• Macbeth

• A Midsummer Night's Dream

• King Lear

• Twelfth Night

• And so on.

🎭 Minack Theatre is therefore famous as the "outdoor home of Shakespeare by the Sea" of South West England.

William Shakespeare, a 100% true Englishman and considered the greatest poet and playwright in the history of England and the world, died April 23, 1616 (age 52).

📜 wrote 38 plays and more than 150 Sonnets, and his work became a treasure of world literature.

🎟️ How to Book Tickets in Advance Minack Theatre

✅ Official website:

👉 https://www.minack.com

Estimated admission price: £10-12

🛑 P.S. From here, Porthcurno beach can be seen because it's not far from each other, but to get to the beach, you have to park at another point.

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