Ava Wong Davies

David Mamet’s 1977 duologue about sexual and power politics, now at Southwark Playhouse, confidently examines the undoing of a couple’s relationship during a trip to a cabin in the woods

Omar Elerian’s adaptation of Ionesco’s tragic-farce at Almeida Theatre is laced with catharsis and comedy

Subtle metatheatrical satire that suffers from an underpowered production

Winsome Pinnock’s Alfred Fagon Award-winning play, directed by Miranda Cromwell and starring Karl Collins and Kiza Deen, spans centuries but occasionally feels unmoored

Ambitious reworking of a play by Sophocles that is as remarkable as it is frustrating

Emma Rice’s adaptation of the 1987 film, starring Sandra Marvin, Patrycja Kujawska and Le Gateau Chocolat, lands askew, despite glimmers of brilliance

The National Theatre’s reopening show, an adaptation of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s film co-created by Jeremy Herrin, Jack Thorne and Bunny Christie, takes us into a version of the afterlife that is both mundane and quietly remarkable

Alfred Fagon’s play, which had its world premiere at Hampstead Theatre in 1975, makes its return 46 years later in a production directed by Dawn Walton

Silvia Mercuriali’s meditative app-based show explores the sensation of swimming, playing with the gap between imagination and reality

Gbolahan Obisesan’s response to the dehumanising Exhibit B production is remounted as a taut, tense short film that confronts anti-Blackness and raises questions of artistic responsibility