• Thornburywitch
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    5 months ago

    It’s a lovely place to chill on a sunny summer morning. Next to it is a mini greek amphitheatre - stand on the bronze disk and speak normally and your voice is magnified by the surrounding walls. There was often performances there in summer pre-covid - and I expect these will start up again fairly soon. A beautiful space.

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      5 months ago

      I did wonder if the amphitheatre was ever used! Hopefully they reinstate it.

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        5 months ago

        Attended a performance of Euripides’ The Bacchae there. Powerful and strange. Especially in the kind of setting the play was intended to be performed in. I really got it then that theatre had its roots in religious ritual.