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Why Merseyside is the natural home for a Shakespearean theatre

Prescot was the site of the first free-standing, purpose-built indoor playhouse outside London – and now it's home to the game-changing Shakespeare North

You enter an octagonal cocoon, modelled on a 1630 playhouse, built of slowly splitting green oak.
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