Monday
There’s loads of good stuff at Pulse festival in Ipswich this week, including Lost Dog, Chris Goode’s Stand, Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing, the mighty Fat Man, Figs in Wigs and Urban Foxes. There’s lots of young talent too at A Younger Theatre’s Incoming festival which starts at the New Diorama tonight. Scarborough’s hit Cox and Box, which reinvents 19th-century comic opera, is at Sheffield’s Crucible Studio tonight and tomorrow.
Tuesday
Lisa Dwan is astonishing in Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby as part of the International Beckett season at the Barbican, which later in the week also includes Olwen Fouéré in Lessness and Sydney Theatre Company’s Waiting for Godot. Battersea Arts Centre takes up residence at the Place with work by Nic Green, Hannah Sullivan, Sean Mahoney and a chance to see the wonderful Dancer on Friday, a show that asks who is and isn’t allowed to dance. While over at BAC itself, Christopher Brett Bailey’s searing This Is How We Die takes up residence. The Spalding Suite is a terrific little show – looking at the UK’s basketball subculture – at Liverpool
Wednesday
The latest from Patrick Marber, The Red Lion, is set in the world of semi-professional football and it’s at the National Theatre, in London, from tonight. Matt Ricardo’s clever and engaging Showman is at the London Wonderground on the South Bank tonight only.
Thursday
Elinor Cook’s Image of an Unknown Young Woman at the Gate starts with a video going viral as a young woman in a yellow dress is shot by police. Greyscale’s Gods are Fallen and all Safety Gone brings family relationships to Northern Stage. Teddy, a story of rock’n’roll in 1950s Elephant and Castle, starts rocking at Southwark Playhouse. David Thacker says goodbye to the Octagon in Bolton with Michael Frayn’s great backstage farce Noises Off. Chris Goode’s stories of everyday heroism, Stand, goes into the Traverse in Edinburgh. Fellswoop’s Current Location, an allegorical response ecological disasters, is at the Trinity Centre in Bristol – tickets via the Tobacco Factory. Yaël Farber’s extraordinarily powerful Nirbhaya, created in response to the rape and murder of a young woman who boarded a bus in Delhi in 2012, is at Cast in Doncaster from tonight. OCD is explored in Vivid’s Just Checking, a piece based on interviews with sufferers, which is at ARC in Stockton from tonight.
Friday
The world premiere of Arthur Miller’s docks drama, The Hook, is at the Royal and Derngate in Northampton tonight. Tomorrow, Paines Plough’s Roundabout takes up residence on the Southbank. Choose from the family show Our Teacher’s a Troll, Alexandra Wood’s The Initiate and Every Brilliant Thing. Everyone’s a winner.
