[1] The Minack's performing season runs from Easter to the end of October and includes a wide range of music and theatre.

[2] The theatre was the brainchild of Rowena Cade, who moved to Cornwall after the First World War and built a house for herself and her mother on land at Minack Point for £100.

[4] In 1929, Rowena Cade became involved with a local village group of players who staged Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in a nearby meadow at Crean, repeating the production the next year.

They decided that their next production would be The Tempest and Miss Cade offered her cliff garden as a suitable location for the play.

Miss Cade and her gardener, Billy Rawlings, made a terrace and rough seating, hauling materials down from the house or up via the winding path from the beach below.