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The American actor, Sam Wanamaker, dreamed of constructing a theater just like the Globe Theatre near the original location where audiences enjoyed so many of Shakespeare's plays some 400 years ago. It took nearly 25 years to collect the money from private donations, enough to build the playhouse complete with thatched roof and two pillars formed from green oak. The building began in 1993, but unfortunately, Sam Wanamaker died shortly after the groundbreaking. Sam's work was truely a labor of love.