Monday
From 5pm tonight The Great Yes, No, Don't Know Five Minute Theatre Show takes place in various locations across Scotland and the world. There's 24 hours of shows on the theme of independence, none lasting more than five minutes, hosted by the National Theatre of Scotland and co-curated by David Greig and the late David MacLennan. If you can't be at one, everyone can watch online here. Or head to Liverpool and the Everyman, where John Gay's musical satire The Beggar's Opera gets a makeover from the glorious Kneehigh and becomes Dead Dog in a Suitcase.
Tuesday
It's Tuesday and down in Exeter at the lovely Bike Shed, Tom Frankland and his real-life dad, John, are sharing a stage for Frankland & Sons which explores three generations of the same family and the legacy of love and parenting. The really big show of the week is National Theatre Wales's Mametz, a piece played out in ancient woodland near Usk in Wales which will give audiences a visceral sense of life and death on the battlefields of the Somme. The writer is Owen Sheers, who wrote the script for the mighty The Passion. The British premiere of the latest from the brilliant Forced Entertainment, The Notebook, opens at BAC.
Wednesday
Get out the confetti and head to Shoreditch Town Hall, an increasingly essential venue, for Wedding, created by Hannah Ringham and Glen Neath. While you are there check out Toot's Be Here Now. I saw their last show and it was lovely. Time is running out for David Haig's much-praised Pressure, about weather forecasting and the D-day landings, which is at the Minevera in Chichester until Saturday.
Thursday
There are only a few days left for Amy Sharrocks's wonderful Museum of Water installation at Somerset House. It's free too, so do pop by. Also head to the Unicorn, where 13 children aged eight to 11 are giving an account of their everyday lives in Next Day.
Friday and the weekend
At the Sheffield Crucible studio, Richard Wilson does Beckett in Krapp's Last Tape. In London, After a War takes over BAC as part of Lift for three days, with a programme in which 25 artists consider the legacy of the first world war and contemporary issues of conflict.
Dancing City transforms Canary Wharf as part of the Greenwich and Docklands festival and it's always a wonderful event that makes you look at the city through new eyes. Then head to Royal Artillery Square in Woolwich where Polish company Teatr Ósmega Dnia create an outdoor spectacular called Arka, about all those displaced by war. Both events are free and well worth your time.
