Thursday, 19 June 2008

Orlando Named Honorary Patron Of The New Marlowe Theatre Campaign

Actor Orlando Bloom has been named as an honorary Patron of the New Marlowe Theatre campaign, a development project to build a new theatre and centre for the performing arts in the heart of historic Canterbury, a birthplace Bloom shares with dramatist Christopher Marlowe.

The Canterbury-born actor has joined nine other influential founding Patrons – including Joanna Lumley – who are backing the New Marlowe fundraising campaign, which aims to raise £6m of private donations towards the overall project cost of around £24m.

You can read the full article HERE

NOTE: Although dated October 2007, this story has only just resurfaced. (There were other headlines concealing this news in October.)