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Theatre

The Cherry Orchard (National, Cottesloe) As You Like It (RSC, Barbican) Rich and surprising Kathy O'Shaughnessy T he set is a haze of green fading into blue covered by a faint......

Gardens

Obscuring the view Ursula Buchan F or most people, severed for ever from any rural root and denied access to the oral traditions that naturally accompany grow- ing up in the......