Zak Zarafshan’s debut at Theatre503 is a fresh, intelligent drama of identity and playground politics

Endlessly inventive, rap-infused, Tube-set staging of the Lewis Carroll classic, from Poltergeist Theatre

Expert puppetry boosts Matthew Gabrielli’s satire about cancel culture

Jacob Roberts-Mensah’s fictional reimagining of a meeting between real-life Ghanaian cultural pioneers is compelling without feeling contrived

Danusia Samal’s lyrical, energetic and music-infused new play

Joel Tan’s debut play provides a series of moving, if disconnected, vignettes exploring authoritarianism

For its 20th anniversary, Deafinitely Theatre has created a bilingual production inspired by accounts of domestic abuse within the deaf community

Satinder Chohan’s new play explores inherited trauma experienced by South-Asian women in the UK

Meandering piece about ageing and sleeplessness

Katie Redford’s debut full-length play at Theatre503 is an enjoyably performed heartwarming production

An accomplished and well designed debut at Theatre503, London inspired by Colin Kaepernick’s decision to take the knee during the national anthem of an NFL

Exuberant queer Caribbean cabaret that blends the playful with the political

A vivid one-woman show at Southwark Playhouse about grief and growing up, held together by Rosie Day’s confident, vulnerable writing

A lively and inventive family show bolstered by some superb performances from Theatre Peckham’s Youth Academy.

Mathilde Dratwa’s New York-set debut starring MyAnna Buring, about becoming a mother in the Trump era, is never less than engaging – and the gag rate is thrilling