Blocked from entering Tibet, he simply walked in through the Himalayas, hiding from Chinese soldiers. As his play about riots in the region is finally staged, the Indian writer talks about l…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThis drama inspired by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is ripe for revival but the story asks more questions than it answers James Phillips calls it the "perfect time" …
New productions of A Lesson from Aloes and Blood Knot forcefully portray a world of claustrophobia, surveillance and the subtleties of racial exclusion The multiracial plays of Athol Fugard …
The award-winning actor and writer on All About Eve, celebrity culture and the perils of not actually being Welsh Monica Dolan is a Bafta-winning actor and writer. Born in Middlesbrough, her…
Gate theatre, LondonA story from a Somali pirate kicks off this outlandish comic critique of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now Wolfram Lotz's surreally comic critique of Joseph Conrad's H…
Royal Court, LondonClean Break's satirical look at the stereotypes around life in jail ends up undone by its own artifice Inside Bitch is a drama about drama and its misrepresentations. Four…
Salisbury PlayhouseThis frenetic rewind for Agatha Christie's mystery splits between Hollywood homage and send-up In a bare room, an elderly woman sleeps in an armchair, sprained ankle on a …
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonBarney Norris's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker winner about the perils of blind duty speaks to modern Britain 'The play must be unlike the book or the…
Serving the cucumber sandwiches in a future Britain, Tara Arts and Two Gents present Oscar Wilde's classic as an urgent tale of migrant survival " with only two actors Ayesha Casely-Hayford …
Playground theatre, London This attempt to delve into the disgraced movie mogul's mind finds rage, denial and hateThe theatre's promotional blurb warns that Steven Berkoff will go "where no …
Birmingham Repertory theatreJoe Penhall's play about a young black patient caught between two clashing white doctors is incendiary, intellectually rich and ever topicalWhen Blue/Orange was f…
Vaults, LondonA mother and daughter have profound discussions about identity but this drama is still searching for its centreA Muslim mother and daughter are preparing for Ramadan when their…
The Egg, BathNick Makoha's fragmented and vertiginous account of his treacherous journey to Britain is a story of our timesOn the left of the stage, a screen projects the Miltonic line: "No …
With an adaptation of Noughts and Crosses set to tour the UK and her anthology of Muslim writing picked for Emma Watson's book club, the prolific British writer is as busy as ever. Here she …
Old Red Lion, LondonLiv Warden's play explores what happens to the daughters of a powerful man who is charged with GBHWhere are the women closest to once-powerful predators who have been und…
Park theatre, LondonPeter Duncan gives an earnest performance in his daughter's play about a music-hall legend with a dark pastThe Dame has a tender genesis story: writer Katie Duncan was in…
Dorfman, LondonAnthony Neilson's adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story has a sexual frisson, schlocky gore and a shape-shifting setThe Tell-Tale Heart is Edgar Allan Poe's short story …
Gate theatre, LondonThis inventive performance of Kincaid's celebrated 1988 essay has the barbed satire and bold message of the original'The thing you have always suspected about yourself th…
Theatre Royal Bath A village choir's harmony is upset by a sly newcomer in William Gaminara's satire of snobbery, secrets and singing contestsThe Nightingales are a group of a cappella singe…
After a turn on stage as George III, the co-founder of the League is returning to horror to recreate Dracula for TV. What he finds 'frightening and debilitating' now, though, is leaving the …
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonTeenaged soccer players in the US suburbs laugh, gossip and fight in Sarah DeLappe's playIn Sarah DeLappe's Pulitzer-nominated debut play, the Wolves are …
Arcola, LondonDaniel York Loh's twin tale of the Chinese Labour Corps members who head to Europe during the first world world has emotional resonance but fails to come alive on stage The all…
As the award-winning writer's new play opens at the Royal Court, the actors involved talk about breaking boundaries in British theatre and tucker green's innovative approachBefore the Royal …
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonA cod-scientific lecture on animal behaviour is given a comic twist in a surreal show that is too cutesyIsabella Rossellini went back to university to study anima…
Old Vic, LondonRazzle-dazzle showbiz twins bewitch and delight in an inventive, smart and saucy productionWise Children is Angela Carter's rambunctious last novel about illegitimacy, incest …