All posts tagged "William Shakespeare"

  • More Shakespeare Coming to Prescot This August

    The Lord Chamberlain’s Men will bring Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Prescot on Thursday 8 August. The best-loved of the Bard’s comedies, Dream transports us to the enchanted woodlands of the Athenian countryside, a magical world...

    • Posted July 24, 2019
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  • Romeo & Juliet Returns to Prescot 13 July: Photos

    Imaginarium Theatre’s hit production of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet returns to Prescot before ending its summer tour. The play opened in the ‘Woodland Theatre,’ in the grounds of Prescot Parish Church, on 15 June, before touring parks across Merseyside...

    • Posted July 5, 2019
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  • Summer Cultural Season Underway in Prescot

    (Press release) It’s almost time for the Prescot Festival, and already the summer season of culture and entertainment has begun. On 4 May hundreds of visitors were whisked back in time at the town’s most successful Elizabethan...

    • Posted June 5, 2019
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  • Romeo & Juliet Coming to Prescot This June, July

    The world’s most famous love story is coming to Prescot on 15 June. Imaginarium Theatre, the Prescot-based company known until recently as MATE Productions, is staging William Shakespeare’s tale of romance, revenge and rivalry in the woodlands...

    • Posted May 29, 2019
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  • Voting Now Open on Shakespeare North Prescot Street Name

    A competition to name the street in front of Prescot’s new Shakespeare North Playhouse is now in its final stage. A shortlist of six Shakespeare-inspired names, along with reasons for the suggestions, is being put to the...

    • Posted June 26, 2018
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  • Shakespeare-inspired Micropub to Open Valentine’s Day

    Prescot’s first micropub will open on Wednesday 14 February. The Bard micropub at 57 High Street officially welcomes its first customers at 4pm on Valentine’s Day. The opening day theme will be ‘Shakespeare in Love.’ Inspired by...

    • Posted February 9, 2018
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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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  • 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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  • Prescot Festival Short Story Winner Revealed

    A Haydock woman scooped £100 and had her writing published online in the 2016 Prescot Festival Short Story Competition. Maureen McEvoy wrote about the hapless Henry, who finds a novel solution to his marital misery. The short...

    • Posted August 10, 2016
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  • 2016 Prescot Festival Audience Tops 1,600

    The Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts has attracted a combined audience of over 1,600 for the first time since it was founded, in 2005. The 10-day event opened with a swing band and ended with...

    • Posted June 29, 2016
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