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PATRICK MARMION: Locals can hardly believe it themselves. Prescot's sleepy eastern suburb was an Elizabethan Las Vegas: a market town where people flocked for gambling, merriment, and pleasure in Shakespeare's day. . . theatre! With a vibrant programme that continues with a loving travesty of the Bard's mistaken identity caper, The Comedy Of Errors, the stylish new playhouse, which opened here in the fall, aims to re-bottle that energy. The play's been revived as a Lancashire-Yorkshire stand-off in 1980s Scarborough (and, as it happens, it's also running at the Stephen Joseph Theatre after this). Shakespeare's verse has been updated, with solid modern vernacular and rhyming couplets by Nick Lane and Elizabeth Godber, the daughter of Hull's most celebrated playwright (before Richard Bean), John Godber. With joyful seaside-postcard caricatures, Godber Jr. and Lane set the scene ablaze.