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Although not due for completion until 2004, the shell of the new theatre in Kingston upon Thames will host an extraordinary Spring Season in its unfinished main auditorium this month, for audiences of up to 1,000 at each performance.
The new theatre uses the ground plan of Shakespeare?s first theatre, The Rose, but uses modern building techniques to make full use of the historic design. The first performances will be a community play ? Don Juan in Kingston, a musical comedy commissioned from Phil Willmott; and Northern Broadsides will be the first professional touring company to test the new auditorium with a double-bill of Shakespeare?s Henry V and A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood.