Traverse, EdinburghFrom a man sneezing out frog-like creatures to a husband restored to life with the phlegm of a beggar, these supernatural fables are uncanny Being human is a risk. You nev…
Leeds PlayhouseDorothy turns eco-warrior, seeking justice in an unjust world, in this visually exciting production of the children's classic Check out the internet theory that Greta Thunberg…
Curve, LeicesterThe classic musical gets a bold makeover in this stylish and intimate production directed by Nikolai Foster It's not every show that comes with an endorsement from the local …
Dundee RepThe Scottish comic-strip transfers to the stage in a witty show addressing cultural anxieties about belonging, driven by a rock, gospel and bhangra score It would be a stretch to c…
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeSisters Danielle and Nichole Bird create a dreamlike mirror image in a superbly staged production, alive with music, wit and spectacle It was written as …
Coliseum, OldhamWhat used to be one boy's coming-of-age struggle with a tyrannous ogre is now a free-for-all Boisterous, full-throttled and cheery it may be, but it's hard to locate the hear…
Paisley Arts CentreA shipyard electrician and his wife suffer the debilitating effects of a preventable, man-made disease in Frances Poet's play In 1898, factory inspector Lucy Deane Streatf…
Byker Community Centre, NewcastleThis explosive, techno-soundtracked assault on the military machine cuts between war-zone combatants and anxious families in the weapons industry Two men loo…
Traverse, EdinburghAnna Russell-Martin gives a magnetic performance as Anais, the 15-year-old resident of a care home, who dreams of reinventing herself Anna Russell-Martin doesn't crack a s…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterLucy Ellinson stars as a lean, mean and moody Macbeth in Christopher Haydon's noisy, dystopian production, with Ony Uhiara as a high-spirited wife Let's number the …
Northern Stage, NewcastleArts employee Rosa Postlethwaite sets out to satirise the corporate machinery of modern theatre " but deadpan irony gets it in the way Do you remember a time before …
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDavid Greig follows Tarkovsky and Soderbergh with this bold, rewarding take on StanisÅ‚aw Lem's novel about a sentient planet speaking to its visitors If a sentient…
Derby theatreSarah Brigham's revival of Richard Bean's brilliant and chaotic comedy hoodwinks the audience into its games, but lacks the original's taste for danger Such was the air of spont…
New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeWith modern-day parallels and an excellent ensemble, this play about two powerful women tests the limits of intolerance and compassion How refreshing to be plung…
Dundee RepPeter Arnott's brilliant vignettes about a 1879 railway bridge disaster imagine the lives and hopes of passengers stalked by death Peter Arnott has written enough plays to know you…
Pitlochry Festival theatre, Port Na CraigRarely has theatre seemed so much part of the public sphere as in this electrifying adaptation of the Elizabeth Gaskell novel There is a thrilling tr…
Scottish Storytelling Centre, EdinburghDrawing on her dual Scottish and Kenyan heritage, Mara Menzies weaves together an exquisite set of stories about the power of language to liberate and …
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThis full-blooded agitprop cabaret comprises 10 monologues about resistance and emancipation, based on true stories about the treatment of women in Nigeria In a week w…
Summerhall, EdinburghLaura Dalgleish is magnetic as a woman marauding through the Newport night after family pressures become too much Theatre is a laboratory where we put a character centre…
Festival theatre, EdinburghThe avuncular storytelling sage leavens seven-and-a-half-hours of myth-recounting with boyish enthusiasm and silly voices Stephen Fry is lying prostrate on the st…
Summerhall, EdinburghTim Etchells' thought experiment doggedly asks what if you could go back and right the wrongs of your past? Tim Etchells is surely a master of the late-night pub convers…
Drawing from folk music, Celtic myth " and a drunken night out, three plays are imbued with a deep sense of terrain Karine Polwart's Wind Resistance, which makes a welcome return to Edinburg…
Summerhall, EdinburghAhmed El Attar's bruising two-hander dives into the long lead-up to 2011 in an attempt to determine what causes mass revolt What causes a people to rise up? Is it a simp…
Kings theatre, EdinburghAn updating of Sophocles' classic, set on election eve, has such political resonance you can imagine Boris Johnson not far away The play has hardly begun and already …
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghSasha Frost sparkles as a curious and vulnerable Kay searching for her birth parents, but this unfocused production fails to capture the intimacy of the soul-searching…