Bristol Old VicGiles Terera's lyrical and inventive drama about a brutal episode in British history brims with urgency, pain and ultimately pride In November and December 1781, 132 enslaved …
Sherman theatre, CardiffThe drama may miss a beat, but the music, sleek production and talented ensemble provide a tempting treat for the soul In the week that saw the lifting of almost al…
Sherman theatre, CardiffThis stylish play packs a lot in and has strong performances but its darker nuances are smothered by whimsy Performed and captioned in Welsh, English and some French,…
Bristol Old VicA father and daughter meet for the first time in 50 years in this evocative and powerful exploration of grief It is August 2000. In a Seoul hotel at the second state-organised…
Sherman theatre, CardiffPanto tropes are happily pooh-poohed with a gender-swapped Scrooge and properly terrifying puppetry in Joe Murphy's triumphant Dickens redo Attend the tale of Ebbie …
Theatr Clwyd, MoldMark Lambert is superb as a widower given a digital assistant in Tim Price's rumination on loneliness, privacy and ethics It is March 2020, and widower Roger (Mark Lambert)…
Sherman theatre, CardiffNo details are spared in Rhiannon Boyle's frank and funny exploration of the sperm bank route to parenthood, starring the charismatic Bethan Ellis Owen A Welsh idiom …
Theatr Clwyd, MoldKaite O'Reilly relocates August Strindberg's classic to a Welsh stately home in postwar, post-pandemic 1921 'What do you know about magnificence?' asks Christine the cook o…
Schaubühne, BerlinThe multiverse in Chris Bush's Kein Weltuntergang, directed by Katie Mitchell, lays bare our contradictions and complicity in the climate crisis Ambivalence and contradict…
Theatr Clywd, MoldLetting the audience choose props and costumes adds both absurd and affecting possibilities to this selection of 15 new short plays Directed by Theatr Clwyd's artistic dire…
Theatre on the Downs, BristolClear in its message and the targets of its take-downs, this play's rhetoric is persuasive but it leaves you yearning for more Performed in Bristol's new pop-up …
Available onlineShôn Dale-Jones's autobiographical show tells the story of his lockdown through texts, WhatsApp group chats and Zoom calls with loved ones Like the denizens of Love Island…
Theatr Clwyd, MoldRhodri Meilir is brilliant as a beleaguered pizza topper inspired by the Finnish film-maker in Alan Harris's black comedy Originally due to be staged in spring 2020, Alan H…
Sherman theatre, CardiffA pair of piercing performances give real depth to Lisa Parry's smart two-hander about faith and community It is the end of the school week and precociously self-poss…
Sherman theatre, Cardiff Daf James follows up his sensational 2010 play Llwyth with a return to its characters a decade on Daf James's Llwyth (Tribe), first staged in 2010, was a sensation. …
Sophie Stone stars in Kaite O'Reilly's show which celebrates the forgotten women of the second world war with a powerful visual language Sophie Stone extends her right arm and lets her hand …
Birmingham HippodromeSign language, speech and physical storytelling come together to interrogate history " and theatre itself Devised from 40 hours of interviews with members of the deaf co…
Various locations, MoldA brass band, choir and cast of more than 100 gathered for a heartfelt re-enactment of a dark day that left four people dead Performed in the town's streets and square…
Sherman theatre, CardiffComplex women are imprisoned in a world of male buffoons in this rich and remarkably modern staging of the seminal drama " but only Hedda can escape Having recently r…
Various venues, BirminghamAided by hula hoops, raw chicken and animatronic dogs, the performers in this six-day series of shows embarked on a quest for emotional connections Communion, empat…
Sherman, CardiffEd Thomas's lyrical new play situates its characters in a post-cataclysmic, Beckettian nowhere in which words are all they have left Bear Ridge Stores, a family-run butcher a…
Schaubühne, BerlinVirginia Woolf's promiscuous poet flits between the past and the present in this rousing and spectacularly elaborate show The titular character in Virginia Woolf's 1928 no…
Chapter, CardiffChris Carnell fuses his own story with that of the classic thriller to create a lyrical study of grief and family On a hot August day in 1968, while watching a televised broa…
Sherman theatre, CardiffKatherine Chandler's potent new play about hedonism, violence and toxic bantz confounds expectations at every turn Yaz doesn't want to work in a nail bar for the rest…
Birmingham RepEvan Placey transforms the lead characters into women in a provocative version embraced by a brilliant young cast Calling Birmingham Rep's production of Jekyll & Hyde "bold…