Ava Wong Davies

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