The Big House, LondonA mixture of surrealism and satire renders Maggie Norris's production both unnerving and puzzling Covid-19 dramas have kept us afloat during lockdown. There have been on…
The award has been won by Ahlam and Amy Trigg, who beat more than 1,000 other entries, in initiative to dismantle stereotypes about women's writing The inaugural Women's Prize for Playwritin…
Available onlineThe experience of black frontline workers in the Covid crisis is brought to harrowing life in these plays based on interviews with a teacher and mental health worker As the C…
Available onlineAlan Ayckbourn plays a man looking for answers about the death of his musical prodigy daughter in an audio version of his 1994 work that keeps us guessing till the end When A…
Available onlineIn an intimate and often traumatic one-woman performance, Pepa Duarte explores her hostile relationship with cravings, calorie-counting and identity, as a bean soup bubbles o…
The playwright and activist formerly known as Eve Ensler changed the world with The Vagina Monologues. Her next project hopes to be just as empowering " but this time she's listening to, not…
Available onlineGet that blindfold on! Morpheus's interactive horror is scary " but teaming up with strangers is fun We have been told to bring a blindfold and headphones for a "terrifying s…
Available online Staffordshire's Anglo-Saxon booty inspires a host of short plays by writers including April De Angelis and Darren Sharp A metal detectorist from the West Midlands lists his …
Available onlineThe Queen's theatre in Hornchurch seeks to set the record straight on the county's much maligned image with four monologues that fizz When Mike Leigh situated his social sati…
Available onlineLouise Orwin whispers monstrous imaginings into your ear in an aural interrogation of the horror genre that touches on pandemic fears 'What's your favourite scary movie?" ask…
Mike Bartlett's monologue brings us the inner life of a despotic public figure and Luke Barnes's over-the-phone drama is profoundly creepy A powerful man has broken the rules of lockdown, fl…
Available onlineThese bite-sized, beautifully written short plays give a powerful voice to aggrieved heroines from Greek and Roman mythology This three-part series enters the hearts and mind…
Available onlineJuliet Stevenson, Linda Bassett and others bring to life a fantasy dinner party thrown as the Nazis overrun France All does not go smoothly at Steven Carl McCasland's fantasy…
Olivier theatre, LondonMichael Balogun delivers this monologue " a sequel to Clint Dyer and Roy Williams' Death of England " with deftly controlled energy 'There have been other moments in h…
Crucible, Sheffield/onlineA three-woman cast powerfully captures the shifting fortunes of a Nigerian family down the decades, from Ibadan to Britain With a cast of three on an almost bare st…
Chichester Festival theatre/onlineDirector Tinuke Craig gives Sarah Kane's one-act play an edge-of-the-seat tension as the four characters move between hope and despair Crave was the one-act…
OnlineBeginning at the end, Jonathan Coe's novel about the scheming Winshaws is turned into an audacious investigative whodunnit Jonathan Coe's satirical novel about the venality of the That…
Nottingham Playhouse; ZoomThe actor was joined by Adrian Scarborough for a seasonal dose of phone calls from the other side and undead criminality 'The oldest and strongest emotion of mankin…
Rose theatre, KingstonWilly Russell's play works well in a socially-distanced staging, and the questions it asks about the value of arts and education feel more pertinent than ever This 40th…
She went from rave diva with Nomad to winning her third Olivier award on Sunday for Death of a Salesman. Yet the London actor isn't immune to the storms battering theatre Sharon D Clarke was…
Watermill theatre, NewburyThis powerful, affecting drama ranges over the pioneering aviator's adventurous career and her final terrible moments Amy Johnson is, in many ways, still the epitom…
Nottingham PlayhouseIn James Graham's Covid romcom, a couple who have just met decide to quarantine together, while in a parallel narrative they face isolation alone The playwright James Gra…
Immersive LDN A revitalised, socially distanced version of the F Scott Fitzgerald novel keeps the jazz age alive with song, dance and spectacle Last year, in the "before", The Great Gatsby …
This funny, tragic and deeply unsettling one-woman tour de force shows who the US constitution serves " and who it lets down. The statistics alone are horrifying Heidi Schreck tells us she f…
Bridge theatre, LondonTamsin Greig and Maxine Peake play long-suffering women, gravely put-upon by the men in their lives, in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads The first monologue in this double-…