We live in a different world, of course, to the world of 2017; and as the production opens with a hauntingly evocative performance of We'll Meet Again we remember not just the evacuees of the Forties but the Ukrainian families ripped apart in recent months. Then, as now, the train was the prime mode of escape; here – as in Cookson's original – it's brilliantly represented by a toy steam-engine followed by battered suitcases that suddenly light up so that they look like carriages.Tom Paris's new design enhances the original concept of worlds within worlds by creating a set in which concentric circles evoke a magical solar system.

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