Barely a day goes by without a publicity stunt or photo opportunity in Potters Fields Park - and the latest is a 35 ft sculpture of a tattooed swimmer.
Just across The Cut from the Calder Bookshop, where many of Samuel Beckett's plays have been read and performed, there is a chance to see some short works in a marginally more theatrical space.
Every year teenagers across the country sit exams on the works of William Shakespeare, but what did the playwright himself look like at 14?
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