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Hall For Cornwall


Coordinates: 50°15′46″N 05°03′02″W / 50.26278°N 5.05056°W / 50.26278; -5.05056

The Hall for Cornwall, a major venue in Truro, Cornwall has a large main auditorium which plays host to West End musicals, opera, ballet, musical acts and other entertainers. The Hall for Cornwall has a capacity of 969 (reduced to 925 when the orchestra pit is in use) and attracts around 180,000 theatre-goers each year. The venue has a restaurant and coffee shop and hosts regular flea markets.

In September 2008 Hall for Cornwall produced a major new production of The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe: Barabas, which featured a Cornish, national and international cast. With Barabas, Hall for Cornwall returned to the theme of working with a Renaissance text, and followed on from the successful production of Responses in 2007.

The Hall for Cornwall is one of a number of organisations involved with Cornwall Council's proposed National Theatre of Cornwall, and it registered the name as a trademark in September 2011.

The hall was built in 1846 from Carn Brea granite and originally housed the town hall, magistrates and stannary courts, police offices, cells and the fire brigade. In 1909 plans were drawn up to change the building into a public hall. This culminated in it being leased for a skating rink and occasional picture house. In 1914 a fire gutted most of the building and in 1925 remodelling took place to accommodate a stage “suitable for the presentation of plays”.


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