Monday
It is referendum week in Scotland and theatres are getting in on the act. Today, Wallace from Rob Drummond takes the form of a theatrical panel debate at the Arches in Glasgow. Otherwise, James Dacre revives Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Northern Stage in Newcastle, before it pads off to Northampton. Michael Feast and Shelia Reid star in a revival of Philip Ridley's Ghost from a Perfect Place at the Arcola. The rise of the far right is examined by Chris Thompson in Albion, which opened at London's Bush theatre last Friday.
Tuesday
Gary McNair and Davey Anderson consider what we believe and how we make decisions in How to Choose? at the Traverse in Edinburgh, which also plays host to the return of the post-independence comedy Spoiling, seen during the Edinburgh festival fringe. How to Choose heads to Glasgow and the Arches this Wednesday for one day only. How we're all living longer, the experience of the elderly and why we aren't better at dealing with old age are considered in Home Sweet Home at Bradford's Ukrainian Centre this week before it travels to the Albany in London next week. An early Tennessee Williams play provides the inspiration for the musical cabaret, The Liberation of Colette Simple, which is at Jackson's Lane in Highgate from Tuesday. There are contributions from Robert Holman and Amy Rosenthal. Theatre Delicatessen return to one they made earlier, with the award-winning Pedal Pusher. Canadian circus outfit 7 Fingers are back in London at the Peacock with Sequence 8.
Wednesday
Scotland's great written tradition and sense of itself as a nation is celebrated in National Theatre of Scotland's Blabbermouth at the Assembly Hall on the Mound in Edinburgh, where, during the day, a cast of actors and those in public life will be selecting and reading from the Scottish writing that inspires them. The Albany in Deptford hosts the latest from Belarus Free theatre, The Price of Money, which turns economics into theatre. The birth of hacktivism is explored in Tim Price's Teh Internet Is Serious Business at the Royal Court from Wednesday. Gary Owen's ever-green Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco goes on tour from Chapter in Cardiff.
Thursday
Ailie Cohen's much-admired children's puppet show The Secret Life of Suitcases goes into the Unicorn at London Bridge. David Greig's Yes/No plays at the Traverse to mark Scotland's referendum day. John McGrath's Little Red Hen is on for one night only this Thursday at the Finborough, set in Glasgow in the 1970s as the battle for independence begins. Starting tonight at the Drum in Plymouth, before heading out on tour, is James Graham's The Angry Brigade, which looks back to homegrown terrorism in the 1970s. 20/20 Vision at Camden People's Theatre features new work from Jamie Harper, Jack Dean and more.
Friday and the weekend
Hamlet begins at the Citizens in Glasgow, with Brian Ferguson in the title role. Pilot and Roy Williams' new version of Antigone, set in a Thebes overrun with street gangs is at Derby theatre from Friday then on tour from 4 October. Young company Dumbshow bring John Steinbeck's fable The Pearl to the Pegasus in Oxford at the start of a UK tour. Gideon Reeling's immersive game, Interrobang?!, in which you get to play detective, begins this Friday. There are family-friendly performances, too.
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