Some spells are cast by this production, in which the director plays Prospero, but it also wearingly replays the same tricks ...

The misbehaviour continues with Rachana Jadhav's maximalist set design, which is laden with puppets, masks and treasures – and secret disco lights, usually forbidden in this authentic candlelit space.

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Tim Crouch is one of our great theatrical alchemists. Most famously – in his conceptual show An Oak Tree – he creates a ...

Do you have favourite theatres in London? Sam Wanamaker is one of mine. It’s a tiny indoor theatre next door to the ...

She was travelling with King Alonso of Naples, played by Jo Stone-Fewings who apologetically clambers through the audience, and his son Ferdinand, by Joshua Griffin (who is made to appear a co-opted ...

Paul Wills’s designs flood the interior of the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse with gold – as though the theatre’s candle-light has turned liquid, dripping and smudging down pillars and creeping ...

This is Tim Crouch’s Tempest as much as it is Shakespeare’s. Admittedly, for anybody unfamiliar with this most fantastical of the Bard’s late romances, it probably isn’t an ideal introduction, but ...

There is something quietly radical about staging A Midsummer Night’s Dream by candlelight. In the intimate wooden womb of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s most familiar comedy is stripped of ...