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Thoughtful and gorgeously produced VR experience about the women of the Bangladesh War of Independence

Intriguing metatheatrical Shakespearean production plays with gender

Electrifying revival of a layered study of colourism

Mark Farrelly’s impressionistic exploration of the daring artist Derek Jarman is a great addition to King’s Head Theatre’s Boys! Boys! Boys! season

JJ Green’s debut play at the Turbine Theatre is a colourful testament to the power of imagination

Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill’s exploration of gender and collaboration at Battersea Arts Centre is clever and loving

Cheerful and funny – if narratively baggy – portrait of a queer community from writer Iman Qureshi

Stephanie Martin’s impressively candid take on polyamory and coupledom in queer relationships

David Wood and Omar Okai’s musical adaptation of Floella Benjamin’s best-selling memoir features commanding performances as it traces the history of a family arriving in London in the 1960s

Alecky Blythe returns to the National Theatre with an ambitious and earnest, if theatrically uninspiring, verbatim exploration of modern youth