The Minack Theatre is an open-air amphitheatre carved into the granite cliffs above the…

The Minack Theatre is an open-air amphitheatre carved into the granite cliffs above the sea at Porthcurno, just four miles from Land’s End. It was built almost entirely by hand by one woman, Rowena Cade, who bought the headland for £100 after the First World War and started shaping a stage and seating from the rock in 1931. She hauled sand up from the beach to mix concrete, etched Celtic designs and play titles into the wet cement with an old screwdriver, and kept working on it well into her eighties until her death in 1983. It looks like something the ancient Greeks left behind but it’s less than a hundred years old, and it’s regularly named one of the most spectacular theatres in the world.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​