The life of bees, and even theoretical physics, are increasingly familiar tropes in fiction and the drama. Nick Payne’s moving miniature watches these worlds collide, and the boy-meets-girl story [girl-meets-girl in this production] is refracted into infinite fragments, applying arcane elements of relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory … But you don’t even need GCSE science to share ..read more

The opening of a new Eastern Angles tour is always an event. But this show uniquely so – a closed-door premiere before the production is moth-balled till next year. A real privilege, but a pleasure tinged with sadness, to be part of a very small audience for this first and last night. Arthur [Swallows and Amazons] Ransome married Trotsky’s secretary ? And played chess with Lenin ? George ..read more