Swallows and Amazons; Get Santa!; The Animals and Children Took to the Streets; A Flea in Her Ear " review by Susannah Clapp

Bristol Old Vic; Royal Court, London SW1; Battersea Arts Centre, London SW11; Old Vic, London SE1The Christmas show grew up this year. Not into innuendo and violence " panto can take care of all that " but into stylishness, subversion and invention.It seemed unlikely that Arthur Ransome's square-jawed children's sailing stories, set before the second world war, and teeming with halyards and centreboards, could be dra…

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