Available onlineIn Gary McNair's jovial audio play, a woman rediscovers a connection with her home town and her dead father by following a Scottish football team for a season Who doesn't lov…
Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough In Laura Wade's clever play, her heroine becomes a 50s housewife but 21st-century gender politics lurk under the Formica surface In the row behind me, a w…
The Irish playwright is known both for feverishly claustrophobic plays " including his latest, Medicine " and big commercial hits. If a project doesn't feel right, he fires himself Lockdown,…
Bard in the Botanics, GlasgowShakespeare's play on the unreliability of appearances works well in the wings of a theatre, but this 90-minute streamlining perhaps cuts too much You can see wh…
Pitlochry Festival theatreLockdown loneliness, eco-crisis and land ownership are explored with varying degrees of subtlety in an uplifting show The National Trust should see about hiring Col…
Pitlochry Festival theatreBrian Ferguson performs with mesmerising verve in this poignant, desperately funny portrait of existential misery 'I am alone," says the narrator of Dostoevsky's 18…
Crucible, SheffieldWood's 1978 play about a young woman's quest to win a local talent show handles weighty issues, including sexual exploitation, breezily It is a world of mirror balls and …
Crucible, SheffieldDrifters and deadbeats populate four lesser-known Williams shorts in this un-sultry Northern Broadsides anthology Northern Broadsides has a history of putting a northern E…
Bristol Old Vic and onlineMalaika Kegode embraces audiences with her warm, honest poetry, backed by musicians Jakabol " but her true-life tale quickly takes a dark turn A sense of homeliness…
Liverpool EverymanMajid Mehdizadeh (AKA Luke Jerdy from Hollyoaks) explores modern-day manhood and the contagion of everyday violence Male violence is like a virus. That is how it comes acro…
Pitlochry Festival theatreA Caledonian witch holds a Roman officer captive in David Greig's drama of attraction and philosophical opposites Pitlochry Festival theatre already has a claim to…
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughThe prolific playwright is on fine form with an uncanny story that smartly contrasts national crises past and present Domestic life was quiet during lockdo…
Available onlineAnimation and street dancing power Mixed Up, a film about validating feelings, while The Super Special Disability Roadshow gives voice to a young audience There's a video for…
Available onlineGods Vishnu, Lakshmi and Brahma become street-smart hedonists in Jaimini Jethwa's ribald and swaggering audio play Body-swap comedies are big in the cinema. From the mother-d…
Available onlineIvor MacAskill and Rosana Cade's clever show about identity was the highlight of the Glasgow festival's opening weekend The animating force behind The Adventures of Pinocchi…
The author, who became a literary sensation at the age of 21 with The End of Eddy, is appearing in a show exploring acting in theatre and in everyday life Some people give their bodies to me…
Merchant City, GlasgowAdura Onashile's app-based walking tour, created with the National Theatre of Scotland, explores the city's historical ties to the slave trade Glasgow's Merchant City i…
Available onlineYou are put through a cryptic interview in this ingenious show that tears up theatre's rulebook to make the spectator the star It's 2007, I've been lured into an Edinburgh ba…
The playwright's Tennis Elbow is a gender-swapped version of Writer's Cramp, his uproarious 70s hit about a failed literary figure If you were in Edinburgh during the 1977 festival there wer…
Available online A volunteer driver, a dog walker and an injured elderly woman fight personal lockdown battles " with playwright Stewart Melton's welcome addition of the determination to pre…
Available onlinePlaywright Amy Ng adds issues of imperial exploitation and race by moving drama of wealthy woman and servant to Hong Kong in 1948 Miss Julie is standing on top of the kitchen…
Available onlineJohnny McKnight's warm-hearted play, live-streamed from the Gaiety theatre in Ayr, reflects on what we've missed most about performance What will audiences want after the pan…
Available onlineMilo Rau's film mixes a dramatisation of the crucifixion story with a real-life portrait of exploited migrant workers Milo Rau keeps you on your toes. On stage, the Belgium-…
Available onlineAudiences try to stop an ancient artefact from falling into the wrong hands in this interactive production What would a time traveller make of it? Someone arriving from 2019 …
Available onlineChris Bush's community play uses local music and family histories to explore the city's resilience, hope and determination It begins, as a show about Sheffield only could, wi…