Monday
Chris Thorpe’s Confirmation will make you reconsider your hard-held views. It’s at Northern Stage in Newcastle tonight and tomorrow. It’s a last chance for the Sick! festival this week, and tonight Sue MacLaine explores linguistic challenges, revelation and disclosure in Can I Start Again Please at the Basement in Brighton. Gloucester’s Strike a Light festival plays host to Bucket Club’s Lorraine & Alan at the Guildhall, Gloucester. Caroline Horton’s Penelope Retold is out and about all this week beginning at Embrace Arts in Leicester tonight.
Tuesday
Lots of terrific things until Sunday at the Sprint festival at Camden People’s theatre in north London, including new work from Action Hero, Emma Frankland, Jamie Wood, Drunken Chorus and more. Young people from across the country perform, also until Sunday, at the Hourglass festival at Battersea Arts Centre in south London. Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s debut, Wink, is very sharp and stylishly staged at Theatre 503 in south London until 4 April. Fat Man, a story of grief and regret, is at the Tobacco Factory theatres in Bristol until Saturday and still worth seeing.
Over seven and looking for a close shave? The Chair sounds terrifically creepy at the Unicorn, London until 12 April. The tensions between three generations in the same family are explored in Leviathan, part of the A Play, a Pie and a Pint season at the Sherman in Cardiff until Saturday. Also in Cardiff, the new pub theatre The Other Room continues its inaugural season with Howard Barker’s The Dying of Today, until 11 April. Stanley Houghton’s Hindle Wakes is at the Duke’s in Lancaster until Saturday. Regent’s Park theatre’s fine revival of To Kill a Mockingbird is at West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds until 4 April. Idle Motion’s latest show, Shooting with Light, about the pioneering war photographer Gerda Taro, is new from Idle Motion at the New Diorama in London until 11 April. Cheltenham Everyman hosts Northern Broadsides’ much admired King Lear until Saturday.
Wednesday
Third Angel are at Cast in Doncaster tonight only with The Life and Loves of a Nobody, exploring the gap between our dreams and realities. David Leddy’s story of an art forgery scam, Long Live the Little Knife, is at Tullynessle and Forbes Hall, Alford, Aberdeenshire, tonight before heading to Dundee tomorrow, Aberdeen on Friday and Banchory on Saturday. The Globe’s tour of Romeo and Juliet stops off at the Clwyd Theatr Cymru near Mold, Flintshire, tonight until Saturday.
Thursday
Tara Arts’ Indian-inspired Macbeth is at Stratford Circus, east London tonight until Saturday as part of a nationwide tour. At the Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Antony Sher and Harriet Walter star in the RSC’s revival of Death of a Salesman until 2 May. Ross Sutherland’s Standby for Tape Back-Up, a life story told through old videotapes, is at the New Wolsey in Ipswich tonight. Curious Directive’s Edinburgh hit Pioneer, about crossing frontiers, is at the Old Market in Brighton tonight and tomorrow. Restoke’s The Voyagers is at the disused Victorian swimming pool Tunstall Baths in Stoke-on-Trent until Sunday.
Friday and the weekend
On Sunday, Mikron head out on tour from the Lawrence Batley in Huddersfield with Raising Agents, which is about a down-at-heel WI branch that gets rebranded. Punchdrunk’s latest enrichment project, Against Captain’s Orders: A Journey into the Uncharted, is made for six- to 12-year-olds and their families and is at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, south London from Saturday until 31 August. For younger children, the gorgeous The Velveteen Rabbit is back at the Unicorn, London from Saturday until 26 April. What cannot be spoken is explored in other ways in So It Goes, a tale of grief at the New Wolsey in Ipswich tonight. Two cracking transfers start this weekend: Tom Morton Smith’s atomic bomb drama, Oppenheimer, is at the Vaudeville, London, from tonight, and Gypsy, with Imelda Staunton, runs at the Savoy, London from Saturday until 18 July.
