£30-odd million spent turning a golf course into a multi-acre stage.
1000 volunteers present 2000 years of English history - real and myth - in 90 minutes.
Dancing maidens! Knights on horseback! Shakespeare! Churchill! Stephenson's Rocket! Geese! (yes, really). More special effects than you can shake a shitey lance at!
Inspired by Puy du Fou in France and very reminiscent of the London olympic opening ceremony in style.
And, just for a change, it's oop North!
What's not to love?
https://elevenarches.org
The Romans were keen golfers you know. And Shakespeare was killed on a golf course when struck accidentally by a wayward niblick thrown by Ben Jonson in a fit of pique after a bad experience on a par 3 of some sort. Or was it some port. Difficult to be sure now. Histories score cards are notoriously unreliable.