London - Jacobean dramas by candlelight
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London has a new theater lit entirely by candles, transporting audiences back 400 years to the kind of performances seen on winter nights in Shakespeare’s time.
Constructed mainly of oak, the building sits beside the established open-air Globe theater on the south bank of the Thames — but it offers a very different experience by replicating an indoor playhouse of the early 17th century.
While the Globe’s thatched amphitheater is breezy and holds more than 1,500 people, the new Sam Wanamaker Playhouse — named after the American actor and director who came up with the idea for both venues — is intimate, with just 340 seats.
Stepping inside is like entering an antique marquetry box, with the flickering candlelight illuminating woodwork and a painted ceiling that make a fine setting for the inward-looking psychological dramas of the Jacobean period.
In many ways the small indoor space is an “anti-Globe,” said artistic director Dominic Dromgoole, whose production of John Webster’s dark tragedy “The Duchess of Malfi” opened there on January 9.
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