All posts tagged "Shakespeare North"

  • Tempest Returning to Prescot 15 July

    MATE Productions’ hit staging of The Tempest returns to Prescot on Saturday 15 July. The Prescot-based company has toured Merseyside throughout June and July with its spectacular production of Shakespeare’s play. Before it goes to the RSC...

    • Posted July 6, 2017
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  • What’s on in Prescot, July 2017

    Events in & around Prescot, Whiston & Rainhill in July 2017 Saturday 1 July  . 9am-2pm . Eccleston Street, Prescot Prescot Producers’ Market Saturday 1 July . 9am-4pm . Prescot Shopping Centre Prescot Arts, Craft & Gift Fair...

    • Posted June 30, 2017
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  • Tempest Brewing in Prescot

    A storm is headed for Prescot, as a spectacular outdoor production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest prepares to open. MATE Productions’ staging of the Bard’s last play has its first performance at 2pm this Saturday, 10 June, in...

    • Posted June 6, 2017
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  • What’s on in Prescot, June 2017

    Events in & around Prescot, Whiston & Rainhill in June 2017 Saturday 3 June  . 9am-2pm . Eccleston Street, Prescot Prescot Producers’ Market Saturday 3 June . 9am-4pm . Prescot Shopping Centre Prescot Arts, Craft & Gift Fair...

    • Posted June 3, 2017
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  • Festival Season Arrives in Prescot

    (Press release: Prescot Festival) A month of culture and entertainment is on offer in the historic market town of Prescot this June. The Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts runs from Friday 16 to Sunday 25...

    • Posted May 24, 2017
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  • Explore a Tudor Village at 2017 Prescot Elizabethan Fayre

    The ever-popular Elizabethan Fayre will return to Prescot on Saturday 3 June, recreating the town’s famous Tudor fayres and celebrating its wonderful heritage. Entertainment will have a distinctly Tudor feel with traditional craft demonstrations and hands-on workshops...

    • Posted April 28, 2017
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  • Prescot Theatre Dig Turns up Historical Artefacts

    Archaeologists have unearthed items dating from the 15th to 17th centuries during preparatory work on the site of Prescot’s new theatre. Pieces of kitchenware, earthenware, storage jars and fragments of a tobacco pipe were among the artefacts...

    • Posted March 22, 2017
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  • Dame Judi Dench Throws Support behind Prescot Theatre

    Celebrated actress Dame Judi Dench has lent her support to Shakespeare North’s proposed theatre, in an open letter to Liverpool. The Oscar- and BAFTA-winning British thespian said she particularly supported the project because her husband, the late...

    • Posted January 3, 2017
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  • Shakespeare North Confirms Key Appointments in Prescot Theatre Bid

    The Prescot Playhouse is a step closer to construction, following the appointment of architects and engineers to work on the project. Shakespeare North plan to build an educational complex, with a 350-seat Elizabethan cockpit theatre (pictured) at its...

    • Posted November 11, 2016
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  • Shakespeare’s As You Like It Back in Prescot – for One Weekend Only!

    MATE Productions will be back on home turf with their hit staging of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It on 30 and 31 July. The show comes back to Prescot after a tour that included Netherley, Halewood, Mossley Hill,...

    • Posted July 26, 2016
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