Serious Nonsense Festival

10 Aug 2024

Prescot

Prescot Town Centre will once again be transformed into a chaotic festival of fun as the Serious Nonsense Festival returns!

The festival celebrates Knowsley’s fascinating connections to Edward Lear, who lived at Knowsley Hall for many years and was best-known for his literary nonsense.

The theme of this year’s festival is ‘All at Sea’ so visitors can expect to see giant seagulls, hapless holiday makers and performing pirates among a host of other nautical-themed entertainment roaming the streets of Prescot.

The Market Place stage returns too, hosting a line-up of fantastic musical performances that span the musical genre’s for all ages to enjoy.

As well as walkabout performances in the town, there is a programme of ticketed events taking place at the Shakespeare North Playhouse throughout the day and evening and the vast majority of the performances across the weekend are FREE of charge.