Monday
Laura Jacqmin’s A Third, about a young couple who invite a third person into their bedroom, is at the Finborough in London. It’s your last chance for Kafka’s Monkey with the wonderful Kathryn Hunter at Home in Manchester. The Hoard festival continues to glimmer and glitter with theatrical possibilities at the New Vic in Newcastle-under-Lyme. It’s also a final curtain for The Father, Florian Zeller’s remarkable portrait of dementia, at the Theatre Royal Bath all this week.
Tuesday
The wonderful Mariah Gale plays Isabella in Dominic Dromgoole’s revival of Measure for Measure at Shakespeare’s Globe. The 10th-anniversary revival of Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree is at the NT’s Temporary Space from tonight, before heading to the Traverse during the Edinburgh fringe. Greg Wohead’s unsettling The Ted Bundy Project is at Bristol Old Vic. New work made by companies from across Europe gets an outing at the BE festival which takes over Birmingham Rep for performance, discussion and food. Douglas Maxwell’s Yer Granny, a tale of a gran who eats her family out of house and home, is at the Lyric in Belfast all this week. Polina Kalinina’s Romeo and Juliet is thrilling and it’s at Salisbury Playhouse from today.
Wednesday
Robert Sean Leonard is terrific as Atticus Finch, a small-town lawyer fighting injustice, in Timothy Sheader’s To Kill a Mockingbird, which goes to the Barbican. Secrets, even when kept with good reason, can corrode and warp, as Idle Motion show in That Is All You Need to Know, about the legacies of Bletchley Park, at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol from today. The Bard in the Botanics season starts in Glasgow with a promenade revival of Love’s Labour’s Lost.
Thursday
Lucy Prebble’s The Effect asks what makes us who we are, at Sheffield Crucible. Daniel Evans directs. Forced Entertainment perform Shakespeare’s complete works in miniature on a table top. Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare takes place over nine evenings and will be streamed online. Head to Z Arts in Hulme for Matilda and Me, Ria Hartley’s story of her grandmother’s journey from Jamaica to England in 1962.
Friday and the weekend
The annual Greenwich and Docklands festival begins tonight with La Compagnie Oposito leading audiences on a merry dance through the streets of Greenwich with Kori Kori. The fun continues over the weekend with the big outdoor street festival, Greenwich Fair, and Periplum’s 451 at Bethnal Green Gardens. Polka teams up with the Royal Opera House for Dot, Squiggle and Rest, a musical adventure for two- to five-year olds, which starts today. Head to the National Rail Museum in York for In Fog and Falling Snow, a large-scale community show about the building of the East Coast rail network. Also from today, Punchdrunk Enrichment are in Cardiff at the Hijinx Unity festival. Beneath the Streets: Lost and Found is performed in a secret location by disabled and non-disabled actors. Info here.
On Saturday, Maxine Peake’s Beryl, a celebration of 1950s cyclist Beryl Burton, cycles back into West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. Also starting on Saturday is (150), Marc Rees’s look at the story and legacy of the Welsh community in Patagonia, which will be staged at the Royal Opera House stores near Aberdare in a co-production by Wales’s two national theatre companies. Duckie are in action with Border Force at the Camden Centre on Saturday, conceived and directed by Joshua Sofaer with Amy Lamé as the Queen and Dickie Beau as the PM.
