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Vanishing Point's The Destroyed Room opens in Edinburgh, the Hear Me Roar! festival of feminism begins in Lancaster and Jinny, a response to Look Back in Anger, premieres in DerbyThe Solid L…
Royal Court Upstairs, LondonPlaywright Mongiwekhaya's post-apartheid tale of erased histories and frustrated dreams is beautifully acted and grips like a thrillerWhat's in a name? A great de…
Director Sarah Brigham talks about her revival of the kitchen-sink drama Look Back in Anger, presented at Derby theatre alongside Jane Wainwright's Jinny, a modern-day companion piece that u…
Forced Entertainment's series of table-top plays performed with household items is in a great tradition of storytelling that keeps Shakespeare aliveIs it possible for a jar of Roses lime mar…
Polka, LondonThe poet's wit shines through in these 1960s miniature plays, though the staging sometimes struggles to match the rich languageThese stories written by Ted Hughes originally too…
When acting in a female role at an all-boys school, Jo Clifford began to explore her gender identity and theatre became a place of shame. After transitioning, and beginning to perform her ow…
Ustinov theatre, BathAlice and Ben's neighbours want to be friends " or do they? Played to the hilt by a skilled cast, Catherine-Anne Toupin's play generates unease amid the comedyA theme is…
The Vaults, LondonThis cheeky but unexpectedly moving show takes its cue from the astonishing story of a magician who vanished into thin airThe publicity for this performance claims that Hug…
Forced Entertainment do Shakespeare, Pixie Lott is Holly Golightly, and Analogue and Theatre Ad Infinitum both have new workJack Thorne and Graeae's The Solid Life of Sugar Water hits the NT…
Arts theatre, LondonThis software-generated Greenham Common musical is risibly stereotypical but pleasant as a milky drinkPlenty of musicals written by humans sound as if they have been comp…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonAyesha Dharker, Chu Omambala and Lucy Ellinson shine in a 1940s-tinged production that is dusted with magic by director Erica WhymanPast and pre…
Unwomanly monsters, revolutionaries or worms who turned? As Jean Genet's classic play is revived in London, the macabre story of the Papin sisters, who killed their employer's wife and daugh…
Northcott, Exeter Director Paul Jepson overplays the pauses but there are fine performances in this cleverly designed revival of the playwright's anatomy of egotism There are many different …
Unicorn, LondonThe dialogue in Tim Crouch and Gary Owen's show consists solely of the names of its heroes " the result is a smart and subtle take on family lifeJeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemo…
While the Bush in west London closes its doors for a refurbishment it will put on work in nearby pubs and laundrettes. Its new season will include a 'love letter' to the neighbourhood, says …
Bike Shed, ExeterFrom sea rescues to horse rides for autistic children, Daniel Bye and Nadia Morgan's understated performance celebrates people who quietly get on with helping outThis latest…
Noma Dumezweni directs I See You at the Royal Court, Dominic Dromgoole presents his Globe swansong and Standby for Tape Back-Up is out on tourThe hollowness of the New Labour dream is expose…
The Vaults, LondonA multisensory take on Shakespeare's story, from the perspective of Banquo and intercut with first-hand accounts of military veterans, would work better if it was simply to…
Old Red Lion, LondonDan Hutton's inventive modern take on Thomas Kyd's 1587 drama is neatly handled and well designed, but the cast's inexperience showsRevenge (Leo Wan) watches as we take o…
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonPeter Whelan's compassionate, filigree drama tells the story of the Bard's scion Susanna, seeking life's poetry in puritan England, only to be accused of adult…
Gender and racial diversity is growing in UK theatres " but disabled creatives are being left behind. We have to shift away from patronising box-tickingOver the last few months, it has felt …
The Yard, LondonCressida Brown's return to the venue of her 2006 verbatim piece, Home, is insightful, but has a whiff of cultural tourismTen years ago, Cressida Brown and Offstage Theatre ma…
Katie Mitchell directs Sarah Kane, Marianne Elliott's staging of Husbands and Sons arrives in Manchester, and Jamie Lloyd revives The MaidsTorben Betts's adaptation of the gangland classic G…
Liverpool EverymanFlaubert's dry comic observations are replaced with full-on slapstick in a show that inserts dinosaur costumes and some awkward metatheatrical banter Julian Barnes describe…
Soho theatre, LondonThis confessional one-woman show offers increasingly uneasy laughs as the artist reveals more and yet less of herself The title of Ursula Martinez's latest show is both a…
