Prescot Playhouse

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The Prescot Playhouse was a purpose-built Elizabethan theatre in the then-Lancashire town of Prescot, now in Merseyside, England. It was built in approximately 1593, and was demolished in the early 17th century. It was a cockpit design.

It was one of the few free-standing theatres outside of London, and most probably served the gentry visiting the Earl of Derby in nearby Knowsley. Several Shakespeare plays were performed there.

In March 2007 Shakespeare North announced that it was applying for £20 million of National Lottery funding to recreate the Prescot Playhouse as part of a new community arts complex in Prescot. [1]

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  1. ^ Lottery bid for new Bard theatre, BBC News.
  • George, David, "The Playhouse at Prescot" in Wilson et al (eds), Region, Religion and Patronage: Lancastrian Shakespeare, Manchester University Press, 2003.

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