Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghNamed after a song by Elina Alminas's Estonian father's favourite band, Depeche Mode, this show takes on the boorish failings of the former Soviet republic Pleas…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghWittily drawn historical drama follows self-effacing leader ill-equipped to deal with the encroaching Nazi menace If you think actor Joseph Cullen is cartoonish at t…
Williamson Park, LancasterSam Jones brings innocent charm to the role of Jules Verne's hero in an outdoor version that roams around the park if not quite the globe Jules Verne's caper is a g…
Glasgow Botanic GardensBard in the Botanics stages Robert Louis Stevenson's gothic novella as a tense three-way struggle that asks big questions about human nature It is not quite a Dylan-g…
Director John Young energises this medieval community-theatre tradition with a dynamic and dreamlike journey from the crucifixion to the last judgment It is an inspired idea to present the M…
What can the ancient sport of backhold wrestling tell us about today's struggles over unity and tradition? Our writer heads to the Highlands to see On the far side of the field, a girls' foo…
Manchester international festivalThe audience tour the city listening to a series of voice notes sent by a world-weary survivor. But this promenade performance falters with its form and sens…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterKimber Lee's punky polemic circles through pastiches of Madama Butterfly, South Pacific and M*A*S*H, dissecting years of racist, imperialist and misogynistic tropes…
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterCoronation Street's Christine Mackie gives a passionate performance as the raging patriarch in a production that has moments of invention but too little clarity …
Pitlochry Festival theatreKirsty Stuart's Blanche is convincingly respectable in this revival of the Tennessee Williams classic, before she spectacularly unravels It must be tempting for an …
Vanya, adapted by Simon Stephens, will see Scott tackle all of the characters in Chekhov's play Andrew Scott is to return to London's West End to play every character in Uncle Vanya. The sta…
Northern Stage, Newcastle upon TynePoliticians' glib statements frame the struggles of one man confounded by a bewildering welfare system, in an adaptation of the Ken Loach film that both mo…
Various venues, EdinburghFor children wondering what their parents do all day, many of the delightful shows programmed here will show them that they're not really so grown up How curious to …
Pitlochry festival theatreMama Rose drags her two daughters from one vaudeville fleapit to the next in a bulldozer of a role There's something of the Mother Courage about Mama Rose. Like Ber…
The writer of the acclaimed Patricia Gets Ready… returns with a lockdown-inspired comedy drama about a drug dealer having a power cut The trigger for a play can be many things: a moral dil…
Alphabetti theatre, NewcastleDegna Stone's ambitious play moves from the imperial to the domestic in its exploration of the legacy of untruths You can't fault playwright Degna Stone for ambi…
Traverse, EdinburghGary McNair delivers verbatim interviews and misremembered Connolly routines from ordinary people in this love letter There is an air of Nick Park's Creature Comforts abou…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghLesley Hart's adaptation of the classic novel is driven with tremendous energy following its tragic heroine as she discards bourgeois convention It must be Saturday be…
Northern Stage, NewcastleThis show for young audiences builds to a stirring drama of waking up to injustice and trying to right it Hannah Lavery constructs her play from simple sentences. He…
Belgrade theatre, CoventryCorey Campbell's impressionistic production can lose focus but it benefits from engaging performances We never get to see Vivienne Mavis Taylor in this devised prod…
Royal Court, LiverpoolAn inspired parody of coming-out dramas meets a deliciously daft plot involving Sonia in Jonathan Harvey's comedy Who would have thought Jonathan Harvey would write a s…
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeShould we sympathise with Hayley Carmichael's irascible radio soap star as she risks being axed, or condemn her as she bullies her young vulnerable young…
Traverse, Edinburgh Calum L Macleòid's western-style drama pits a gunslinging Elspeth Turner against a notorious fugitive in a peculiarly Scottish corner of Canada On the back wall of Bec…
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickAn eight-strong cast and a revolving stage take us on an extraordinary adventure for adults and kids, with time-keeping as a theme Jules Verne's 1872 novel traded…
Beacon Arts Centre, GreenockThere's an optimal mix of irreverence and affection in this bracing adaptation of the swashbuckling classic With the long-running Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of),…