Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse stands as a rare attempt to recreate the specific, intimate conditions of a seventeenth-century indoor theater. While the neighboring Globe Theatre is an open-air space meant for daylight performances, this playhouse was designed to operate entirely by the light of more than one hundred beeswax candles. This lighting choice fundamentally changes how a performance is experienced, as the actors and the audience share the same illuminated space, creating a sense of proximity that was common during the Jacobean era.