It’s a tough world for graduates these days and probably even tougher if you want to get work as an actor.

So well done to the SISATA theatre group, a group of young actors, set up to share their passion for Shakespeare.

Their fourth production As You Like It subverts the usual story by swapping genders in the main characters. With just four actors, they also play a few roles each. A little confusing at the start but with some deft costume changes, it soon settles in.

Now set in the future where gender roles within society have been reversed, the women are the fighters and the men are the gentle, lovestruck admirers.

And Ben O’Shea plays a fantastic Roscoe in love with Orla as he trips delicately around the stage in a silky dress, mooning and sighing for his love while deviously manipulating her heart.

Robert Wallis provides laughs as the comic shepherd Philip in love with Roscoe, who he thinks is Semele. Charmaine K Parkin shows her confidence and range with a satisfying "All the world’s a stage", speech explaining the seven ages of man.

Lydia Jane Atherton sparkles as Orla, who falls in love and shares her feelings with her lover disguised as a woman, with a presence which draws the eye.

Three stars