Playing with Fire

A review of Anders Lustgarten’s ‘The Secret Theatre’ in The Times Literary Supplement: At 40 by 55 feet, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is just a little smaller than the hall playhouse established by James Burbage at the Blackfriars in the 1590s. Otherwise, this vertiginous, intimate, almost claustrophobic little theatre, playing to three levels of galleries […]