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Video: Building the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

 

Monday 22 April 2013 20:59 BST
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The artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe theatre said that acting talent coming from private schools is a 'real worry' as it is becoming harder. Facing this, the theatre has now launched the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe, a new Jacobean-style theatre currently under construction that will initially look at work by playwrights. The actors will be trained in verse speaking, as well as music and dance of the period.

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