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

Exhilarating production of Dipo Baruwa-Etti’s play

Sonali Bhattacharyya’s two-hander, directed by Nimmo Ismail, probes injustices, both domestic and colossal

Big and bawdy performances drive a musical revival of a 1970s satire

David Ireland’s brutally absurd descent into the mind of a loyalist gunman features impressive performances by Daragh O’Malley, Kevin Trainor, Owen O’Neill, Laura Dos Santos, Kevin Murphy and Declan Rodgers

Moving performances illuminate a story of Black masculinity, sexual identity, faith and fatherhood