Can't hold a candle to it: lighting the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
From Liberace candelabras to fiery breeches, the theatre's Cumbrian-made candles shed a unique light on its showsThe candles at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse couldn't be more simple and elegant. Most of them are long, slender and slightly tapered, like the fingers of fashionable gloves in Jacobean portraits. Their wicks have been dipped and dipped again in molten Yorkshire beeswax at Ted Thompson's Moorlands chandlery …