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Henry V, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Shakespeare’s Globe joins forces with consistently good Headlong theatre company and Leeds Playhouse to produce a fresh take on Shakespeare’s eerily relevant history play Henry V, about nationalism and a desire to conquer at any cost. The vision of Headlong’s artistic director Holly Race Roughan, this Henry V focuses on the single-minded pursuit of the King and how this relates to what it means to be British.
Titus Andronicus, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Steel yourself: a new production of Shakespeare’s first and most gory tragedy Titus Andronicus is getting 2023 off to a stomach-churching start in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. It won’t be all blood-thirsty horror and no poignance, though, when exciting director Jude Christian (Dick Whittington) is at the helm.
The Winter’s Tale, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
In a monumental first for Shakespeare’s Globe, associate artistic director Sean Holmes (The Tempest, Hamlet, Twelfth Night) presents a production of The Winter’s Tale that makes use of both the theatre’s candle-lit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and its outdoor auditorium, which usually remains closed in winter. The audience travels with the story from the stiff court of Sicilia in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse to the more care-free, pastoral lands of Bohemia in the Globe Theatre – presumably come wind, rain or snow.