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A Face to Launch 1000 Ships!

A face to launch 1000 ships?
Right outside the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury is a giant mask (officially named ‘Bulkhead’). Created by sculptor Rick Kirby, it was inspired by a line from Christopher Marlowe's play Dr Faustus, which reads: “The face that launch'd a thousand ships.” And Kirby created it using scrap metal pieces from ships along the Kentish Coast

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