Scarborough's newly refurbished Open Air Theatre will also be screening World Cup games.

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He grew up in Lincolnshire and went to school in Reading, beginning his professional career as acting assistant stage manager at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.

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What's more, some aspects of this production, which was jointly directed by Timothy Sheader and Liam Steel and is based on a 2010 revival that they created for London's Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, live up to the promise of its conception.

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He said the open-air theatre was one of London's first dedicated playhouses and it was here that a young William Shakespeare performed as part of The Lord Chamberlain's Men company of players, and had his first plays performed.

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And the open-air Globe theatre on the South Bank will stage a six-week, Babel-flouting programme of all 37 plays in 37 different languages, beginning on April 23rd (Shakespeare's birthday).

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Just beyond the Tate Modern is Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, a 1997 reconstruction of the open-air playhouse where Shakespeare once worked.

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Thousands of people have attended the three-day open-air festival since it began in 2000, offering a mix of opera, musical theatre and Welsh language music.

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