A celebration of the community of Brent: Elete N-F writes on Zadie Smith’s ‘joyous’ contemporary adaptation of The Wife of Bath.

‘I find myself wishing that this production excavated some deeper weirdness’: Frey Kwa Hawking writes on Young Jean Lee’s 2014 play exploring white privilege.

Lasting impressions: Farah Najib writes on Lanre Malaolu’s ‘joyful and hard-hitting’ choreographic interrogation of Black masculinity.

A difficult birth: Emily Davis writes on Mathilde Dratwa’s ‘playful and confident’ new play that brings together the personal and the political in the Trump era.

Talking therapy: Miriam Sallon writes on Ifeyinwa Frederick’s new play that explores masculinity and depression.

‘Thick realism’: Mert Dilek writes on Roxana Silbert’s dated revival of Marsha Norman’s ‘grim suicide drama’.

Waking nightmare: Emily Davis writes on Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s ‘panic-strewn and nightmarish’ exploration of ‘some of the worst things that a parent could imagine happening’.