Hope Street
Street of theatres and concert halls, fronted by a wall of a hundred and five portrait shutters.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Hope Street in Liverpool stops beneath the Everyman Theatre and the wall of faces on its front. It follows the site from a dissenters' chapel and a cinema to the playhouse a group of young founders opened in the sixties, and the actors and writers who got their start on its stage. You'll also hear how the theatre turned to its own audience when the old building came down. Best heard on the pavement opposite, looking up.
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