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The Winter’s Tale, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

09 Feb 23 – 16 Apr 23, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM

In a first for Shakespeare's Globe, director Sean Holmes presents a promenade The Winter’s Tale that moves between the theatre’s indoor and outdoor spaces

By Holly O'Mahony on 8/8/2022

The Winter’s Tale, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
The Winter’s Tale, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
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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.


One of Shakespeare’s trickier plays, the tragicomedy sees the intensely jealous King Leontes wrongly accuse his pregnant wife Hermione of infidelity – an accusation which leaves her presumed dead and his baby daughter Perdita abandoned. Perdita is in fact being raised by simple country folk in Bohemia, and all is revealed when a reckoning reunites the family in the court some 16 years later.


The production marks the start of the theatre’s Folio 400th Anniversary celebrations, and its convention-defying, promenade shift between auditoriums is bound to make it a memorable one. Here’s hoping Holmes’s Bohemia is merry enough to warm the cockles on cold winter nights.



What The Winter’s Tale, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Where Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, 21 New Globe Walk, London, SE1 9DT | MAP
Nearest tube Blackfriars (underground)
When 09 Feb 23 – 16 Apr 23, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Price £5+
Website Click here for more information and to book



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