An uneasy mix: Simon Dormandy’s production combines squirmy sexual politics with knockabout comedy.

It wasn’t written for me: Ava Davies reviews Guleraana Mir’s play about a British Pakistani woman and her family

Despicable acts: Rosemary Waugh reviews Shostakovich’s opera, based on the same short story that inspired William Oldroyd and Alice Birch’s recent film.

An Englishman walks into a refugee camp… Amelia Forsbrook reviews Mark Thomas’s show based on his time setting up a comedy club in Palestine.

A queasy confection: Hailey Bachrach on the uneasy laughs of a Wodehouse-inspired comedy.

Popularity, football, sex and drugs: Brendan Macdonald reviews Kenneth Emson’s new play set in an Essex school

No shoes: Francesca Peschier reviews a play inspired by the Monica Lewinsky scandal through its costumes

The bees are saved, and everybody listens: Maddy Costa reviews Tim Crouch’s new show for children and adults.

A widescreen battle of the sexes: Ed Nightingale reviews Michelle Barnette’s new play about modern relationships

Seething resentment: Bruce Graham’s play applies the heat to an exploration of prejudice and hypocrisy in Philadelphia.

Blood cells and viruses: Arinzé Kene’s solo show is a complex exploration of gentrification and representation.