Which London theatre is an open-air reconstruction?

Shakespeare's Globe, opened in 1997 about 230 metres from where the original stood. The first Globe was built in 1599 out of the timbers of an earlier theatre, which the company dismantled overnight and carried across the Thames in a dispute with their landlord over the ground lease - one of the better acts of property theft in theatrical history.

It burned down in 1613 during a performance of Henry VIII, when a cannon fired for effect set the thatch alight. It was rebuilt with a tiled roof and then closed by the Puritans in 1642 and demolished. The reconstruction is thatched again - the only building in London permitted to be, since the Great Fire - with sprinklers threaded through it.

The reconstruction was driven for decades by the American actor Sam Wanamaker, who came to London in the 1940s, was astonished to find nothing marking the site but a plaque, and spent the rest of his life on it. He died in 1993, four years before it opened. Its real value has turned out to be experimental: playing in daylight to a standing audience that can be seen and answered back changes how the plays work, and a good deal has been learned about the texts by staging them in the conditions they were written for.