I ATTENDED the council meeting where the go-ahead was given for the 10-screen cinema in the town centre on Monday – wonderful news for Warrington!

The leader stressed that this would be a ‘major cinema of regional scale and a key attraction’ helping to prove that Warrington was leading the north west out of the recession. I agree.

So now is the time when all the arts groups in town require that one of the 10 screen spaces is built to be flexible enough to become a theatre space when required.

This town of nearly a quarter of a million people cannot rival Liverpool and Manchester without a theatre; most north west towns have one.

We are not asking for a theatre instead of a cinema, as some of your correspondents fear.

We are asking for both at a fraction of what a purpose-built theatre would cost.

There would be all the advantages of the surrounding developmentwhich could attract professional companies as well.

Imagine the kudos the cinema operator could claim – the first arts, culture, leisure facility this century!

Come on artists, dancers, actors, musicians and make your voices heard now.

CELIA JORDAN
Stockton Heath

 

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