I have read with great interest your piece on the Globe Theatre at the end of Stockton High Street. My interest comes, I suppose from the fact that my father was manager there from just before ww2 until about 1950. His name was Maurice Richard Westaway, sadly now deceased and he was greatly influential in bringing ballet and musical comedy to the theatre as it was then.
I do agree that it would be a good idea to renovate the globe into a working theatre once more, because Middlesbrough and Stockton are in dire need of a theatre of this ilk, the nearest one being, as you say, the Sunderland Empire, or the Billingham Forum, which is, I believe, to be demolished in the near future, so surely the Globe would make a splendid replacement for the Forum. Also car parking facilities near the Globe are, I believe already in place.
On a final note, why wasn’t the Globe used an Arts Centre, instead of wasting all that money on removing the old Hippodrome and replacing it with Arc.
I have read with great interest your piece on the Globe Theatre at the end of Stockton High Street. My interest comes, I suppose from the fact that my father was manager there from just before ww2 until about 1950. His name was Maurice Richard Westaway, sadly now deceased and he was greatly influential in bringing ballet and musical comedy to the theatre as it was then.
I do agree that it would be a good idea to renovate the globe into a working theatre once more, because Middlesbrough and Stockton are in dire need of a theatre of this ilk, the nearest one being, as you say, the Sunderland Empire, or the Billingham Forum, which is, I believe, to be demolished in the near future, so surely the Globe would make a splendid replacement for the Forum. Also car parking facilities near the Globe are, I believe already in place.
On a final note, why wasn’t the Globe used an Arts Centre, instead of wasting all that money on removing the old Hippodrome and replacing it with Arc.