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Theatre in Eastern England: IntroductionDateline: 18th March, 2001 East England Arts is the Regional Arts Board which used to be known as Eastern Arts. It covers a number of unitary authorities, including Peterborough, and the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Much of it is the area known as East Anglia, which contains the Fen Country, some of the flattest and most low-lying land in Britain. It also contains the one of the two oldest universities in the country, Cambridge. (The other, slightly older, is Oxford, but since this writer is a Cambridge man, we prefer to ignore that!) East England - and particularly East Anglia - is very much a rural area, almost entirely by-passed by the industrial revolution and the consequent urbanisation. Cambridge now bids fair to be the centre of Britain's high tech industries - more Silicon Fen than Silicon Valley! - and Bill Gates has recently invested massively in the development of this aspect of the work of the university. It is an area rich in history - stone age, Roman, Viking, medieval - and was, at one time, an important seaport area. It is also an area rich in theatre, as the following pages will show.
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