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was performed with the sea as a dramatic backdrop, to great success. Miss Cade resolved to improve the theatre, working over the course of the winter months each year (with the help of Billy Rawlings, Charles and Thomas Angove and other friends), to create the theatre that exists today. She was
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and Miss Cade offered her cliff garden as a suitable location for the play. Miss Cade and her gardener, Billy Rawlings, made a terrace and rough seating, hauling materials down from the house or up via the winding path from the beach below. In 1932,
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The theatre is open for visitors throughout the year though visiting days are limited in the winter. The 90th anniversary of the Minack was celebrated with a production of
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but inclement weather forced them to retreat to a studio mock-up. In 1955, the first dressing rooms were built. In the 1970s, the theatre was managed by
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and built a house for herself and her mother on land at Minack Point for £100. Her sister was the feminist dystopian author
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in a nearby meadow at Crean, repeating the production the next year. They decided that their next production would be
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still working on it well into her 80s. Rowena Cade died in 1983 shortly before her 90th birthday.
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BBC tribute to the 30th anniversary of the death of Rowena Cade
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Porthcurno, Churchtown St., Levan, Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 6JU
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In 1944, the theatre was used as a location for the
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article by Philip Johnston about history of theatre
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Cornish
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Porthcurno
Land's End
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Rowena Cade
First World War
Katharine Burdekin
Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Stewart Granger
Margaret Lockwood
Lawrence Shove
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Minack Theatre and view over Porthcurno Bay.
Porthcurno Bay
A view highlighting the gradient of the theatre
Minack Theatre
A 2012 Shakespeare production
Shakespeare
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