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The theatre is at Porthcurno, four miles (six kilometres) from Land's End in Cornwall, England. [1] The Minack's performing season runs from Easter to the end of October and includes a wide range of music and theatre. Each year, the Minack produces several professional productions as well as hosting visiting companies.
Rowena Cade (1893–1983) was the creator of the Minack Theatre in Porthcurno, Cornwall, UK.. Cade was born in Spondon near Derby on 2 August 1893. [1] She was the older sister of Katharine Burdekin and with her two brothers they lived at The Homestead in Spondon.
The village of St Buryan is situated approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Penzance along the B3283 towards Land's End. Three further minor roads also meet at St Buryan, two link the village with the B3315 towards Lamorna , and the third rejoins the A30 at Crows-an-Wra .
Hewn out of the cliff at Minack Point and overlooking the sea to the Logan Rock is the open-air Minack Theatre, the inspiration of Rowena Cade in the early 1930s. It is named for St. Salomon of Cornwall, father of St. Kubi. The brythonic form of the name 'Solomon' is 'Selevan', which was later wrongly interpreted as 'Sen Levan' , ie 'Saint Levan'.
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Narrowly out of sight of Porthcurno beach in the cliff face to the west is the Minack Theatre, a unique open-air theatre with a unique stage backdrop of Porthcurno Bay and the Logan Rock headland. It is an unusual setting for plays staged during the summer months ranging from the traditional Shakespeare to the more contemporary.
Derek Alan Trevithick Tangye (29 February 1912 – 26 October 1996) [1] was a British author who lived in Cornwall for nearly fifty years. He wrote nineteen books which became known as The Minack Chronicles, about his simple life on a clifftop daffodil farm called Dorminack, affectionately referred to as Minack, at St Buryan in the far west of Cornwall with his wife Jeannie, née Jean Everald ...
Later UK productions have included stagings in 2001 by the Bilston Operatic Company in Wolverhampton, [3] in May 2008 at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, [4] in April 2011 at the York Theatre Royal, [5] [6] and in November 2013 by BOST Musicals at the Liverpool Empire Theatre. [7]