Groundlings at the mercy of hot wax and bad backs (Authentic Globe experience, 7 February)? Audiences at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse should be grateful for relatively limited authenticity. Back in the day, they had to brave more than warm liquid running down their legs. The preamble to an act of 1574 warned that "sundry slaughters and mayhemings of the Queen's subjects have happened by ruins of scaffolds, frames and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33PM on February 12, 2015