From Black Jesus to Ghosts: Tristram Kenton's week on stage – in pictures

Vera Chok as Xiao Li and Katie Leung as Sunny in The World of Extreme Happiness by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, directed by Michael Longhurst, at the Shed, London Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Paapa Essiedu as Gabriel and Debbie Korley as Eunice in Black Jesus at the Finborough, London Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

A scene from The Fu Manchu Complex by Daniel York at the Oval House theatre, London Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Clare Holman (young Queen), Stella Gonet (older Margaret Thatcher), Marion Bailey (older Queen) and Fenella Woolgar (young Margaret Thatcher) in Handbagged, directed by Indhu Rubasingham, at the Tricycle, London Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

A scene from Don Quixote by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, London Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Edgaras Montvidas as Alfred, Andrew Shore as Frank and Julia Sporsén as Rosalinde in the English National Opera's Die Fledermaus, by Johann Strauss, at the London Coliseum Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

A scene from Indigo Rose, part of the triple bill by Cedar Lake at Sadler's Wells, London Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Lesley Manville as Helene Alving and Jack Lowden as Oswald Alving in Ghosts, adapted and directed by Richard Eyre, at the Almeida theatre, London Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

A scene from iD by Cirque Éloize at the Peacock theatre, London
Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Jeni Bern as Tytania and Henry Waddington as Bottom in Opera North's production of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, at Grand theatre, Leeds Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Paula Sides as Poppea and Helen Sherman as Nero in the English Touring Opera's performance of Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea at the Britten theatre, London Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Sophie Ellerby as Tybalt and Simon Lennon as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet at the Ambassadors theatre, London Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Stewart Agnew as Sydney Carton, Shelley Lang as Madame Defarge, Nicholas Bishop as Charles Darnay and Paul Beech as Jarvis Lorry in A Tale of Two Cities at the King's Head theatre, London Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian