Amphitheatre

Ken Dodd’s widow Lady Anne donates £700,000 to build an amphitheatre in Prescot

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Ken Dodd’s widow Lady Anne donates £700,000 to build an amphitheatre to perform Shakespeare outdoors near Knowsley Safari Park A mini-ampitheatre is set to be built in Prescot and will open in two years’ time The Merseyside theatre will celebrate the town’s links to William Shakespeare It has been funded by a £700,000 grant from … Read more

Amphitheatre is to be excavated amid hopes of proving it hosted Roman gladiator fights or executions

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Hunt for Britain’s 2000-year-old gladiators: Archaeologists are to dig up ancient Kent amphitheatre in hopes of finding proof it was a venue for blood-soaked Roman contests… or public executions Roman amphitheatre is due to be excavated by English Heritage from March The buried arena was the landing site for the Claudian Invasion of AD 43 … Read more