From Dora to Tarot Drome: Tristram Kenton’s week on stage – in pictures

Dora the Explorer Live! is playing at London's Apollo theatre. In a spin-off of the popular children's TV show, the heroine goes in search of Osito, her lost teddy bear
Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Place des Anges, a performance by Stéphane Girard and the late Pierrot Bidon, was among the highlights of Piccadilly Circus Circus, part of the London 2012 festival
Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Shop till you drop … Piccadilly Circus Circus, which brought together 247 international circus artists from 17 different nations, was full of thrills, spills and flair
Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Branching out … Hayley Carmichael in Forests, Calixto Bieito's Catalan collage of Shakespearean forest scenes at Birmingham's Old Rep
Photograph: n/Tristram Kenton

Storytelling, fantasy, dance – oh, and a tarot deck that comes to life. It can only be Marisa Carnesky's Tarot Drome at Old Vic Tunnels
Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Wit and wonder … Rasp Thorne plays the Fool and Jason Karl the Devil in Marisa Carnesky's Tarot Drome at Old Vic Tunnels

[This caption was amended on 7 September 2012; the original credited Duncan DeMorgan as the Devil, incorrectly]
Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Going down a storm … Kate Tempest in Brand New Ancients, a parable of modern-day life, at Battersea Arts Centre
Photograph: Tristram Kenton