Right from the first moments of her production of Shakespeare’s pastoral rom-com it’s clear that Ellen McDougall is out to do things differently. “This is the prologue, how do you like it?” Alex Austin announces in ruff and baseball cap and short white shorts as Jaques. At the end, in another line added by the trans writer Travis Alabanza, Mika Onyx Johnson’s Silvius assures us that we are “part of a queer family!”.
Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”) makes her West End debut in a 21st-century retelling of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” a tale of love and loneliness, adapted by Anya Reiss for The Jamie Lloyd Company. Peterborough Players, 55 Hadley Road, will.
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes an intelligent political drama, a reimagined As You like It and a play about Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter’s passion for cricket