The Minack Theatre (Cornish: Gwaryjy Minack) is an open–air theatre, constructed above a gully with a rocky granite outcrop jutting into the sea (minack from Cornish meynek means a stony or rocky place). The theatre is located at Porthcurno, 4 miles (6.4 km) from Land's End in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The season runs, each year, from May to September and by 2012 some 80,000 people a year see a show, and more than 100,000 pay an entrance fee to look around the site.
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“The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.”
—David Hare (b. 1947)