A new playhouse attached to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London announced its inaugural season on Monday, but there was no room for a single work by the Bard.
Instead the opening lineup at the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, named after the American director who pioneered the main Globe, will feature three Jacobean plays including John Webster’s bloodfest The Duchess of Malfi.
Also part of the programme in the tiny red brick buildingadjacent to the Globe will be a new youth company and acollaboration with the Royal Opera House.
Dromgoole will direct Webster’s Malfi first, followed by theanarchic comedy The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont.