Monday
It’s your last chance to try to snaffle a ticket for Yerma, starring Billie Piper, at the Young Vic. You have only until Wednesday to see Helen McCory as the suicidal Hester in The Deep Blue Sea in the Lyttelton. Every Brilliant Thing tours the Isle of Wight, Dorchester, Chichester, Lincoln and Otley this week, starting at the Tacchi Morris Arts Centre in Taunton tonight. Paines Plough’s Roundabout season is at the Theatre Royal in Margate this week. John Malkovich directs Zach Helm’s The Good Canary at the Rose in Kingston.
Tuesday
Get a first glimpse of Bryony Kimmings, Brian Lobel and Tom Parkinson’s new musical, The Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer, at Home in Manchester before it heads to the Northcott in Exeter and the National Theatre in London. Mike Poulton’s version of A Tale of Two Cities stops off at Oxford Playhouse until Saturday. Charlotte Josephine’s keenly observed Blush, about revenge porn, plays all week at Camden People’s theatre as part of their feminist festival Calm Down Dear, which this week includes the Ruby Dolls’ The Brides of Bluebeard. Elinor Cook’s Pilgrims transfers from High Tide to the Yard in Hackney Wick. Spymonkey and Tim Crouch’s The Complete Deaths – featuring all 74 on-stage deaths in Shakespeare’s plays – is at Shoreditch Town Hall, east London.
Wednesday
Walter Meierjohann’s production of The Emperor, a study of Haile Selassie with Kathryn Hunter playing 10 characters, continues at the Young Vic until Saturday and later moves to Home in Manchester. Adam Guettel’s Floyd Collins, about a Kentucky miner stuck down a mineshaft in the 1920s, is terrific and is revived at Wilton’s Music Hall, London, from tonight. In The Truth to Power Cafe, at Soho theatre from tonight, 24 young people consider who has power over them and what they would say to them.
Thursday
Tony’s Last Tape, inspired by the writings of Tony Benn, stops off at the Liverpool Everyman. David Crooks’ F*cked.com is billed as a tale of bubbles and crashes written by a hedge fund manager and it’s at the Traverse in Edinburgh from tonight. Philip Breen adapts and directs DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover at the Crucible in Sheffield. Patrick Marber’s revival of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties begins at the Menier. Lincoln Drill Hall hosts Getting Better Slowly, a piece about a dancer who becomes paralysed. Swedish circus company Magmanus are at Stratford Circus, London, from tonight at the start of a tour of Attached, about two people hopelessly connected.
Friday and the weekend
It’s worth heading to Colchester for Klanghaus: Alight Here, which is part gig and part theatre and takes place in the Queen Street bus depot. Scotland’s Findhorn Bay festival runs all over the weekend and includes Vision Mechanics and Nordland Visual Theatre’s Drift, an installation for one person at a time, inspired by the true story of a Victorian female crofter adrift on the sea. Northern Stage and Pilot collaborate on The Season Ticket, a story of friendship, family and football, at Northern Stage in Newcastle. James Graham’s This House, about the workings of Westminster, was much admired at the National Theatre in 2012 and gets a deserved revival at the Minerva in Chichester before heading into the West End. It’s one night only at the Dukes in Lancaster on Saturday for Gary McNair’s terrifically likable A Gambler’s Guide to Dying, a monologue about what we value. Saturday also sees the start of Katherine Soper’s Bruntwood prize-winning play, Wish List, about a woman on a zero hours contract, which plays the Studio at Manchester’s Royal Exchange while A Streetcar Named Desire with Maxine Peake continues in the main house.
