by Ella Hickson

directed by Helen Arbon

‘My mother seduced a man so successfully that he altered the constitutional history of this country.’

Elizabeth I is the only unmarried woman ever to have ruled England. She reigned for forty four years.

Mastermind. Seductress. Survivor.

‘Swive’ shines a light on the ways and means by which women in power negotiate the political landscape in order to achieve their aims.