A Tender Thing, Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon
Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon: Ben Power's delicate reworking of Romeo and Juliet premiered in Newcastle in 2009, the same year as Tom Morris' Juliet and Her Romeo appeared in Bristol. The two pieces shared a thematic connection. While the latter transplanted the play to a care home setting, Power uses Shakespeare's words to tell the story of a long-married couple who find themselves facing up to the prosp…