Available online A controlling fool in love comes across more like a sexual predator in this engagingly perceptive Stéphane Braunschweig production for France's Théâtre de l'Odéon Fron…
As venues close due to Covid-19, there's a world of published drama to savour, from text that falls off the page to Alan Ayckbourn's 'undirectable' collage Coronavirus and culture " a list …
Pitlochry Festival theatreJessica Hardwick and Olivier Huband are compelling as a young couple facing harsh realities once their honeymoon ends It's the second half of Neil Simon's comedy wh…
Tron, GlasgowKafka's story is given a chilling update that chimes with our times, referencing the migrant crisis, the gig economy and fear of the unknown Of all the shows to have been affect…
Leeds PlayhouseAfter being told one too many times to 'cheer up, love', Andrea Heaton's Lisa lashes out and is sent to a finishing school to suppress ideas of resistance We're basically poli…
Cast, DoncasterCompassion triumphs over prejudice in Richard Cameron's play about pit workers who form a close-harmony combo One of the stipulations of the Bechdel test, designed to measure …
Leeds Playhouse The Victorian orphan is given an even greater sense of exclusion in Amy Leach's excellent production for Ramps on the Moon Brooklyn Melvin's Oliver has a ferocious roar but n…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThis update with Elaine C Smith focuses on Scotland's landowning class but struggles to make the satire funny There are sad drunks and there are happy drunks. Elaine C…
Dundee RepTitle-winning coach Jim McLean is played with raging mastery by Barrie Hunter in a two-hander that pulls some punches He was the manager described by one player as a "football perv…
Viaduct theatre, HalifaxShakespeare meets Richard Curtis in the play that gave its name to the chocolates, carried by boisterous performances and sweet-wrapper chic As the new artistic direc…
Byre theatre, St AndrewsThis imaginative adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's gothic fable amps up the physical storytelling with comic results When my daughter was very young she develop…
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonModern-day echoes resound in Alistair Beaton's adaptation of the novel about tiny acts of rebellion in 1940s Germany 'The plan…" says Anna Quangel (Charlotte…
Belgrade theatre, Coventry Friends venture into danger on a rival estate armed with sassy spirit and beatbox energy " if not a clear plan " in this lively adaptation of Alex Wheatle's YA nov…
Live theatre, NewcastleA trio of actors try to provide answers for teenagers' anxieties in Paper Birds' razor-sharp show One teenager wants to know when you're ready to have a baby. Another…
New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme Actors swap multiple characters to share stories and trade blows as pints are pulled and relationships dissected in Jim Cartwright's bittersweet comic drama The…
Summerhall, Edinburgh Annual festival of visual theatre delivers a busy mix of puppetry, silent comedy, modern dance and the hard to define When you're used to performing to four people, an …
The city's theatre is emotional, indignant and polemical finds our critic on a whirlwind trip through a dozen shows The sparky young performers on stage thank us for coming out tonight. Ther…
Uig Community Centre, Isle of LewisJulia Taudevin's show about the Gaelic tradition of singing for the dead takes us on a dizzying spin through space and time It's based on keening rituals, …
NTGent, Ghent, BelgiumAn acting family play the members of a family about to take their own lives in this unnerving and heartbreaking celebration of the ordinary It is a dark winter's night …
Various venues, EdinburghCharlotte Runcie and Irvine Welsh are among the writers exploring Scotland's maritime history in these evocative installations A litany of names is projected on the …
Traverse, EdinburghDouglas Maxwell's two-hander teases and cajoles us with questions about how we see ourselves Jimmy says he doesn't want to be a story. An asylum seeker in Glasgow, he refu…
Playhouse, LiverpoolThe hard-working cast bring enough enthusiasm and gusto to this musical adaptation to disguise its weak score The word "believe" has been projected in big letters up St J…
Tramway, GlasgowTreating Carlo Collodi's allegory with the seriousness it deserves, this sincere and playful production draws a vulnerable boy into the tale's darkest corners Don't be taken …
Northern Stage, NewcastleSpectacle trumps subtlety as Hans Christian Andersen's tale of lost innocence is stifled by a topical plot and noisy percussion You can see the temptation. You've g…
Hull TruckMaking Wendy younger gives a different dynamic to Deborah McAndrew's engaging adaptation, with Baker Mukasa's spontaneous Peter She's a theatrical sort, is Vanessa Schofield's Wen…