Playing Indoors

What have we discovered about performance practice in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse since the opening of the intimate candlelit theatre at Shakespeare''s Globe? Playing Indoors reveals the results of a two-year study into the performance of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in this unique theatre drawing together insights into early modern stage practice and the observations of today''s actors and spectators. A history of the encounters of artists and audience members who experienced the space first the book is also a study of the significance of re-imagined theatres like the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and the Globe. Accessibly written for students scholars artists and theatre-goers Playing Indoors is a valuable contribution to the young field of early modern practice-as-research.