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The NWA Region: Cheshire and High PeakCheshire's county town is Chester, an ancient city, with a history stretching back to the Roman occupation of Britain. The name Chester derives, in fact, from the Latin castrum (plural castra), a (military) camp. Chester is home to the Gateway, another of those splendid products of the growth of regional theatre in the sixties and seventies. It was built in 1968 and its studio added in 1998. It is a producing theatre. The main house seats 440 and the Studio 100. There is not much else in the way of professional theatre in Cheshire. Ellesmere Port, often thought of as part of Liverpool, has its Civic Hall, a civic centre with a capacity of 636, and Stockport has a large arts centre, simply called Stockport Arts Centre, which has three performance spaces. The main house seats 472, Studio 1 300 and Studio 2 100. Romiley, part of Stockport, has the Romiley Forum, a multi-purpose venue which seats 410. Finally there is the Alsager Arts Centre which has two small performance spaces, the Axis Theatre (130) and the Dance Studio (141). It is unusual (unique?) for two regional arts boards to have an interest in one county, but that is the case in Derbyshire. East Midlands Arts has in its care the majority of the county, but North West Arts has the responsibity for the High Peak district, which includes the wild country of Bleaklow and Edale, the start of the Pennine Way. There is not much of theatrical interest in High Peak except right on its southern boundary, the spa town of Buxton, which has its Opera House, a receiving house with a seating capacity of 937. The North West Arts Region: Introduction Articles Indices: |
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