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Helena Payne reviews Ella Hickson’s Swive, now playing at Shakespeare’s Globe in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Swive Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Shakespeare’s Globe London 4 Stars Book Now On the eve of a hotly contested and viciously fought general election, we settle into the warm rubic cube of the Sam Wanamaker playhouse; the chunky stage of gilded chipboard, an apt metaphor for Elizabeth I as a monarch.

Helena Payne reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It now playing a the Barbican Centre. Sophie Khan Levy and Lucy Phelps. Photo: Topher McGrillis (c) RSC As You Like It Royal Shakespeare Company Barbican Theatre London 3 Stars Book Tickets It’s always a joy to be invited to a Royal Shakespeare Company production of one of your favourite comedies so with high hopes I settled into the cavernous whale’s belly of the Barbican’s great auditorium.

Old Stock at Wilton’s describes itself as “A Refugee Love Story,” but it is also a timely comment by Canadian-based 2b Theatre on the topic of immigration; what it takes to leave your home and build another life in a distant land. On a day when across the planet, children and young people are striking and demanding action for climate change, it is easy to see the relevance of this individual story and its applicability to the mass migration we are starting to see globally. The cast of Old Stock.