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The Tempest
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London SE1
2/5
IT’S a rare treat sitting in this theatre, the replica of a Jacobean indoor playhouse abutting the Globe theatre, which opened two years ago. A beautifully wrought, intimate and candlelit space, its stage is small but the setting is magical.
Practitioners are still rising to the challenges the space offers and Dominic Dromgoole’s production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest is something of a curate’s egg in terms of the use of the space and the performances he draws from the cast.
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