The swans are back at Sadler’s Wells – but they’re not Tchaikovsky’s

Fossil Free London activists disrupted the closing performance of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake at Sadler’s Wells on Sunday 26 January, to urge the theatre to cut ties with Barclays over the bank’s funding of fossil fuels and arms. The demonstration began with 10 protesters dressed in Swan Lake costumes staging a “die-in” outside the theatre, accompanied by a cellist: The protesters fell to…

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